Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver.

Khaled Hosseini

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• I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Will

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Together
  • River
  • Wood

• I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Business
  • Hair
  • Red

• When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Celebrate

• I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Television
  • Watch

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • People
  • Music
  • Eyes

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life

• I thought-To lose all this forever?And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Forever

• The brassy wood-pigeonsBubble their colourful voices, and the sunRises upon a world well-tried and old.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • World

• The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.

  

  Andrei Sakharov

• I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.

  

  Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

• …Sometimes there are things that people should be afraid of." "Like the dark?" She shook her head. "No, more the absence of light.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Rain

• Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.

  

  Estela Portillo Trambley
  • Earth
  • Passion
  • Rain

• I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Rain