Robert Fisk

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.

British Journalist

Kevin J. Anderson

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

American Writer

Natasia Demetriou

I've just got a flat with a little balcony, so I did that fantastic thing of buying far too many plants and not really knowing what was going to stay alive and what wasn't.

English Comedian

Steve Aoki

The craziest thing I've probably done during a show is the balcony dive - it was pretty scary. I was like, 'This could result in an injury of mine,' but somehow I survived.

American Musician

Gary Oldman

We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

English Actor

Bad Bunny

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

Puerto Rican Singer

Gurmeet Choudhary

Everyday, I sit in my balcony and think about how I want to take my life forward.

Indian Actor

Olga Kurylenko

Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.

French Actress

Richard Cohen

Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony.

American Journalist

Shefali Shah

I have jumped off a balcony from the second floor.

A balcony is often a private space for relaxation or dining, not public like a park.

Private Outdoor

Balconies are above ground level, sometimes requiring stairs to access.

Elevated Access

Provides a higher vantage point to view surroundings, like gardens or streets.

Outdoor Perspective

The balcony in a theater offers a different perspective of the stage.

Theatrical View

Sound can differ on the balcony, sometimes muffled compared to the stalls.

Acoustic Qualities

Balcony seats are often cheaper than orchestra seats in a theater.

Economic Option

 in a way that would immediately grab the attention of his diverse and rowdy audience. The Globe welcomed all sections of society. Wealthier patrons watched the stage from covered balconies while poorer people paid a penny to take in the show from an open-air section called the pit.

Why should you read...

 and her offspring had been leveled to the ground the only remaining structure of the house was a stairway to their balcony a sole reminder and a testimony that the rubble was once a home her family has hosted me and my fixers during my previous visit the table was full of

Through the shattered...

 I'm the android sent by CyberLife. Captain Let's fire at everything that moves. It already shot down two of my men. We could easily get it, but they're on the edge of the balcony -- it if falls, she falls. OK, now we need to decide what we want to ask the captain.

How video games turn...

 to help people get to know their neighbors, even when their homes are organized in the vertical dimension. So we invented a way to use balconies as the new social connectors. The shapes of the floor slabs vary slightly and they transition as you go up the tower.

Buildings that blend...

 when they told me that on a transatlantic liner you can't have any balcony cabins and my answer was if we can't have any Malkin cabins we can't have a transatlantic liner and they said okay we'll go back to the drawing board to create enough space

Billion-Dollar Boat PIPE...

 We like the ups and downs of life. We like our suffering because it's so good when it ceases for a while." This is what I see from the balcony of my hermitage in the Himalayas. It's about two meters by three, and you are all welcome any time.

The habits of happiness...

 when angry, you will make the best speech you will ever regret. And so the third side reminds us of that. The third side helps us go to the balcony, which is a metaphor for a place of perspective, where we can keep our eyes on the prize.

The walk from "no" to...

 Certainly, the authorities were trying to help, I think at that moment, but again, the information flow was not that free. And during lockdown, people were screaming off of their balconies, because they couldn't get food,

What the world can learn...

 friends, but with the hummingbird feeder, we could get this hummingbird friend. And it's really important for us, for example, when we're here at the balcony reading or having lunch or during a meditation in the morning,

The Hummingbirds of São...

 and my parents refused to let me go because they said we would be compelled to sit in the balcony and they viewed this as an indignity that they were not going to stomach and so I wasn't able to go I was very