Eric Carmen

Over thirty-plus years, a certain myth has grown up around the band. And the last thing I ever wanted to do was put us on a stage somewhere, in less than the best circumstances, and pop the bubble, have the fans come in and say, 'Gee, they weren't that good.' It's your responsibility to give them something to be excited about.

American Musician

Rihanna

There's a long way to fall when you pretend that you're so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that's protected by fame or success. It's scary, and it's the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

George R. R. Martin

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.

American Author

Kate Moss

I don't really go to clubs anymore. I'm actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I'm not a hell-raiser. But don't burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I'm a hell-raiser.

English Model

Emma Watson

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

British Actress

Grace Jones

If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline.

Model

Emma Weymouth

One minute I'm inside this magical glitter bubble, then it's straight back to mum-life. Literally. That is my life!

British Model

Mark McKinnon

Life inside the Beltway bubble dulls your thinking.

American Businessman

Marcus Terentius Varro

Roman Author

Saint Augustine

Saint

The word 'bubble' often relates to playful activities, especially for children.

Children's Joy

'Bubble' can imply something delicate, easily burst or broken.

Fragility

In economics, a 'bubble' suggests wealth creation that's not sustainable long-term.

Temporary Wealth

An economic 'bubble' often leads to a sudden financial crash.

Crash Follow-up

The verb 'bubble' usually comes with sound, like liquid simmering.

Audible Action

'Bubble' can mean the appearance of something, often an idea or feeling.

Emergence

'Bubble' sometimes refers to being cut off from broader society or reality.

Isolation

'Bubble' can describe a place or state where one feels secure and untroubled.

Comfort Zone

'Bubble' used informally signifies a state of energetic happiness.

Uplifting Mood

To 'burst someone's bubble' is to bring them back to reality from happiness or illusion.

Disappointment

 it supported his idea that weight was the deciding factor. A variation on the experiment used two tubes with one having a large bubble at the top. If Galileo's interpretation had been correct, the bigger vacuum in the second tube should have exerted more suction and lifted the mercury higher. But the level in both tubes was the same.

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 I love when our visitors have questions about birds. There are definitely some questions that are unusual to me that people maybe want to know the answers for. I think sometimes you get in a little bubble and I get so used to being around penguins and getting to know about their characteristics and their personalities

Can Penguins Fly? PIPE...

 micro bubbles around their entire body as they raced to exit the surface and it acted like a lubricant to reduce the friction and the drag around their body so they could increase speed to exit the water to a gain height but more importantly to avoid the predation of leopard seals and so now we had this new

Paul Nicklen: Emperors...

 birds are developing their feathers there are tiny bubbles of water that help push the feather out and what happens is is the water evaporates leaving holes in the feather now wavelengths travel down from the sun they bounce off in these little holes and depending on the type of wavelength

This Platypus Can Glow...

 didn't scale otherwise you would be holding some vet laptops right now but I started thinking about this more than 10 years ago I spent a lot of time in my PhD my friends tell me playing with bubbles and I did figure out a way to build a universal computation using

Computing with fluids PIPE...

 searchlights i'm sitting beside the pilot in the transparent bubble in the middle and the whole craft is massively strengthened to withstand the huge pressures of the depths as we go down it gets darker and darker the water is thick with small floating

What's Hiding in the...

 Today, scholars work long and hard trying to predict what causes a bubble and how to avoid them. Tulip mania is an effective illustration of the underlying principles at work in a bubble and can help us understand more recent examples

What causes economic...

 So I do think this is a problem. And I think, if you take all of these filters together, you take all these algorithms, you get what I call a filter bubble. And your filter bubble is your own personal, unique universe of information

Beware online "filter...

 like the importance of eating spinach. The jury's still out on that one. As for knuckle-cracking, one study suggests that all that joint stretching and bubble bursting can cause your hands to swell

Why do your knuckles...

 right now you're a bar deep pool and even from here you can see all the way to the bottom you may have noticed the riverbed is bubbling