Kites Quotes · Page 6

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

They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the…

— Shane Jones

Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you…

— Wu Guanzhong

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the…

— Khaled Hosseini

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting…

— Dr. Seuss

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

— William Arthur Ward

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a…

— Paloma Faith

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— William Carleton

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

— Khaled Hosseini

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

— William J. H. Boetcker

Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites…

— John Milton

I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of…

— Khaled Hosseini

You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but…

— Tom Robbins

Today is the day when bold kites fly, When cumulus clouds roar across the sky. When robins return, when children cheer, When…

— Robert McCracken

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

— Khaled Hosseini

In the battlefield men grapple each other and die; The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven, While ravens and…

— Li Bai

I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.

— Karen Marie Moning

I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have…

— Demetri Martin