Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Laila: It isn't fair.

Khaled Hosseini

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• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Famous

• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • House
  • Dad

• The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Life
  • Mind
  • King

• I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Children
  • Want
  • Know

• I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Health

• The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Mean
  • Scary
  • Horror

• Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Nature
  • Clarity
  • Uncertainty

• We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Training
  • Week
  • Holiday

• My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Name
  • Lightning
  • Bolt

• The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Audience
  • Chemistry
  • Pair

• As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Find
  • Fish
  • Later

• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Think
  • Me
  • Back

• See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinion

• If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • May
  • Bad
  • Laws

• Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Mean

• We need to work together to redefine the global image of beauty and continue to push for a more inclusive world.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • World
  • Work
  • Together

• Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Bridge
  • Coaches
  • Builders

• Laila: It isn't fair.

  

  Khaled Hosseini