Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
Khaled Hosseini
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Connection
Suddenly
Connections
Emotional
Happen
Happens
Make
Tremendous
More quotes by Khaled Hosseini
You’re not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
Khaled Hosseini
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.
Khaled Hosseini
I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.
Khaled Hosseini
There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world.
Khaled Hosseini
James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?
Khaled Hosseini
Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.
Khaled Hosseini
It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
Khaled Hosseini
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.
Khaled Hosseini
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost
Khaled Hosseini
Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And
Khaled Hosseini
If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
Khaled Hosseini
J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
Khaled Hosseini
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].
Khaled Hosseini
Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.
Khaled Hosseini
You changed the subject. From what? The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. You know. Know what? That I only have eyes for you.
Khaled Hosseini
Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.
Khaled Hosseini
But then it passed, as all things do.
Khaled Hosseini
Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.
Khaled Hosseini
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
Khaled Hosseini
The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.
Khaled Hosseini