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  • What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

    "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.
  • There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

    Book   Issues   Racism  
  • I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

    Jumping   Tree   Hitting  
    "What will Florence Welch say next - and will we understand it?" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2012.
  • I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

    Self   Athletic   Surfing  
  • The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

    Children   Spring   Grief  
    "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.
  • I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

  • 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.

    Two   Mind   Kites  
    "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.
  • Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.

    Art   Order   Land  
  • I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.

    Dream   Strong   Real  
  • You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

    Delight   Kites   Littles  
  • 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.

    "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.
  • My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

    Heart   Mind   Kites  
    Elizabeth Berg (2010). “The Pull of the Moon: A Novel”, p.9, Ballantine Books
  • You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

    Dream   Sky   Needs  
    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.134, Macmillan
  • Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

    Fun   Cat   Bed  
  • It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

  • Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

    Air   Tails   Kites  
    Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam
  • After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I have standards.

  • Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.

    Past   Kraken   Apples  
  • Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.

    Taken   Cutting   Soul  
  • Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

    Eagles   Wings   Kites  
    Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.14, Heinemann
  • You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.” That’s how it is with dreams,” said Priscilla. “They’re the perfect crime.

    Beautiful   Dream   Real  
  • 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.

    Children   Wings   Kites  
    Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
  • 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.

    Long   Storm   Kites  
    Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.42, Delacorte Press
  • For you, a thousand times over

    Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.110, A&C Black
  • Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

  • • Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks in when you're starving—you're high as a kite, sleepless, full of a frenetic, unstable energy—and the heightened intensity of experience that eating disorders initially induce. At first, everything tastes and smells intense, tactile experience is intense, your own drive and energy themselves are intense and focused. Your sense of power is very, very intense. You are not aware, however, that you are quickly becoming addicted.

    Two   Smell   Numbers  
  • Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

    Friday   Uncles   Night  
  • Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

  • You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

    Fear   Thinking   Tails  
  • Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

    Fall   Boys   Fire  
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