“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
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British author 1882–1956Related quotes
“They are detached from the language and inflated like little balloons.”
On the pretentious words used by lawyers, soldiers, and literary critics, such as "luminous" and "taut." Strunk & White, The Elements of Style 3rd ed. (Boston: Allyn, 1979) page 83.
“What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.”
Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s (1961); as cited by Jonathon Green (1988) Says who?: a guide to the quotations of the century. p. 308
“All I got is dreams. Nobody else believes. Nobody else can see. Nobody else but me.”
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Variant: Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Source: Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
Source: Malcolm X Speaks (1965), p. 111
“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
Source: The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
