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Kites Quotes

1.
a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
Leonard Cohen

Authors on Kites Quotes: Khaled Hosseini Chinua Achebe Karen Marie Moning Leonard Cohen David Benioff Marc Forster Paloma Faith Sarah Addison Allen Jacque Fresco D. H. Lawrence Rick Riordan Jim Moran Alan Cohen Lawrence Hargrave Pharrell Williams John By Augusten Burroughs George Herbert Elizabeth Berg Napoleon Hill Jeff Bridges William Carleton Gilbert K. Chesterton Emily M. Danforth Kate Bush Randall Dale Adams
2.
Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!
Kate Bush

3.
My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
Elizabeth Berg

4.
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton

5.
It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.
Pharrell Williams

6.
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
Alan Cohen

7.
Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.
Napoleon Hill

8.
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
Jeff Bridges

9.
A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.
Randall Dale Adams

10.
You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people, particularly if they like things the way they are - meaning, if their reactions are very simple. The reason most people behave badly or poorly is because they only understand simple things.
Jacque Fresco

11.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
George Herbert

12.
I've never flown a kite.
David Benioff

13.
Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.
Khaled Hosseini

14.
It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
Jim Moran

15.
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.
Lawrence Hargrave

16.
When the winds of adversity come, remember one thing--kites fly the very highest against the wind. Kites don't fly in spite of opposition, kites fly high because of opposition. In fact, they couldn't fly without opposition.
John By

17.
children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

18.
By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.
Khaled Hosseini

19.
I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.
Karen Marie Moning

20.
In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.
Emily M. Danforth

21.
I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough.
Karen Marie Moning

22.
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
Chinua Achebe

23.
And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.
D. H. Lawrence

24.
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.
Khaled Hosseini

25.
Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
Sarah Addison Allen

26.
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
Chinua Achebe

27.
And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.
Augusten Burroughs

28.
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.
Khaled Hosseini

29.
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
Khaled Hosseini

30.
The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.
Khaled Hosseini

31.
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.
Khaled Hosseini

32.
I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
Paloma Faith

33.
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
Khaled Hosseini

34.
For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.
Marc Forster

35.
After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I have standards.
Rick Riordan

36.
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.
Khaled Hosseini

37.
The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.
Khaled Hosseini

38.
In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
Khaled Hosseini