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Quotes About Balcony

Luckily he had found a piece of cloth on the balcony outside Mr Brown's room and so he'd been able to clean off the worst of the dirt before getting down to the important job of taking it to pieces and polishing it.
~ Michael Bond
I was more conscious of being stared at on the balcony than of the typewriter in front of me. Now
~ Sylvia Plath
His voice cut through all like a gold wire, through time, place, dust, heat, and faith. A girl on a balcony averted her head from him superstitiously among the terra-cotta pots of flowers. Romulan blinked at him, entranced. None of them had heard a verse sung better, or a love song more like a knell.
~ Tanith Lee
In the theater the actor had uncertainty, broken promises, constant travel and a gypsy existence. In radio, if you were successful, there was an assured season of work. The show could not close if there was nobody in the balcony. There was no travel and the actor could enjoy a permanent home. There may have been other advantages but I didn't need to know them.
~ Fred Allen
Captain," said one of the guardsmen. "I was here when it happened, watching him on the balcony. It fell right out. Barely a sound. I was standing here, looking out at the Plains and thinking to myself, and next I knew His Majesty was hanging right there, holding on for his life and cursing like a caravan worker." The guard blushed. "Sir.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I've always wanted to live really high up, and this is the only flat in the building with a balcony, so I feel quite smug up here.
~ Miquita Oliver
Eugenie Fonda sat on the balcony of her sixth-floor room, fanning her freshly painted toes and watching the sun melt like sorbet into the Gulf of Mexico. Her third Bacardi was sweating cool droplets that snaked down her bare tummy.
~ Carl Hiaasen
As one, the silent gathering slid out onto the balcony, human patrons in pursuit.
~ Storm Constantine
We surged out of the balcony into a milling crowd, where I stumbled over feet and trod on people's gowns, my arm in the merciless grasp of Liviana.
~ Storm Constantine
In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she waltzed alone, lost in her dreams. But he knew her thoughts weren't of him.
~ Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
As they climbed the rickety stairs and made their way along the narrow balcony that looked down into the lobby, they were most unhappy to see the bearded miner head into Room 12, and the businessman open the door and enter Room 14. Surrounded! said Christina. Shhh! said Mimi, unlocking the door to Room 13.
~ Carole Marsh
I have two rooms and a huge balcony, and so many mountains that I haven't even begun to climb them yet.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Hôtel de Ville, where French republics were traditionally proclaimed from the balcony.
~ Geoffrey Wawro
Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.
~ George Carlin
the Seine beneath his windows, the graceful curve of the wall between his two reception rooms, the fireplace with its antique andirons and the high ceilings where light floated, a clear light coloured green and as transparent as water because it was filtered through almond-coloured canvas blinds on the balcony.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.
~ Suzanne Collins
I am usually a pacer. I go to the balcony to check the sight lines way up there, to check the sound system to see how the balance is.
~ Maury Yeston
The comet's tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky. The maester stood on the windswept balcony outside his chambers. It was here the ravens came, after long flight. Their droppings speckled the gargoyles that rose twelve feet tall on either side of him,
~ George R.R. Martin
Polak, jak da? mu wolno??, to wszystkich przeskoczy. Polak, jak musi czeka?, to wpada w z?o??. Polak, jak my?li, to zawsze senny. Polak, jak ponarzeka, zaraz zdrowszy. Polak, jak przyjdzie wieczór, to zaraz wspomina. Polak, jak widzi balkon, to chce skaka?. Polak, jak wpadnie w sza? to biada, ?lepej i gnu?nej Europie. Polka, jak zechce rzuci miliardera.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I'm standin' there on a balcony in summer air.
~ Taylor Swift
The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.
~ Donald G. Mitchell
Gracious, that's a lot of bosom you're showing," Magnus went on blithely, gesturing toward Tessa with the burning tip of his cigar. " Tout le monde sur le balcon , as they say in French," he added, miming a vast terrace jutting out from his chest. "Especially apt, as we are now, in fact, on a balcony.
~ Cassandra Clare
For her part, Kelly expressed warm feelings about Cooper as well. "He's the one who taught me to relax during a scene and let the camera do some of the work," she would recall. "On the stage you have to emote not only for the front rows, but for the balcony too, and I'm afraid I overdid it. He taught me the camera is always in the front row, and how to take it easy.
~ Glenn Frankel
At the same time he realized how far they were above the city and the lights below seemed to be calling him. He walked to the balcony's edge and looked over. Looking straight down, he seemed to be standing on a cliff in the wilderness, seeing a kingdom and a river which had not been seen before.
~ James Baldwin