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Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.
a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.
Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.