At the moment of the Big Bang, an entire universe came into existence, and with it space. It all inflated like a big balloon being blown up. – Stephen Hawking Brief Answers to the Big Questions.
In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being – a homunculus – that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon. – John Tyler Bonner
I’ve flown in an international balloon race. I’ve piloted my own plane. I’ve ridden to the hounds. I’ve done a lot of exciting things. – Joan Fontaine
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon. – Robyn Hitchcock
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. – Walter Lippmann
