If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Its build quality is superb, given that I am a novice to it 6 months ago and being heavy handed it stands… — Steve Robson Copy Share Image
It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks… — Jan Carlzon Copy Share Image
... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise;… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice,… — Deke Slayton Copy Share Image
I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I’ve flown kites before and I know – sometimes they’re gone forever, and sometimes they’re just waiting in the middle of the… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
![“It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1d5/khaled-hosseini-251_book_it-s-hard-when-you-make-a-film-from-a-bo_401731.png)
![“[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f1d/thomas-jefferson-43_battle_i-t-seems-that-the-cannibals-of-europe-a_505685.jpg)
![“There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the book [The Kite Runner] and to see the final page of that manuscript whir out of the printer was a very special feeling indeed.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a1f/khaled-hosseini-251_book_there-is-an-energy-a-romance-in-writing_1384084.png)
![“How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May at the fun-loving Nation magazine)] seen Fahrenheit 9/11?” quote by Ann Coulter](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/95c/ann-coulter-469_bombs_how-can-rogue-terrorists-in-iraq-detonat_470940.png)
![“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.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cad/khaled-hosseini-251_expansion_in-march-of-2001-i-revisited-the-short-s_173828.png)
