You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.
DJ KHALED Basically what I'm trying to tell you is that it's almost impossible to drive a jet ski at n...
DJ KHALED Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.
DJ KHALED I would love to work with Eminem, Dr. Dre. I wish I could have been in the studio with Bob Marley.
DJ KHALED I've been blessed to be somebody that's been climbing that success mountain top for years of...
DJ KHALED At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school - you'll ...
DJ KHALED We all want to win more, but it's all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have ...
DJ KHALED Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that's turning into a 'they.' My key is...
DJ KHALED I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live s...
DJ KHALED Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!
DJ KHALED If I'm in the 'hood, I like Chef Creole's Haitian rice and stewed chicken.
DJ KHALED 'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'the...
DJ KHALED The new Khaled is enjoying life, man. Because you know what, nobody is going to congratulate you on ...
DJ KHALED What's so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We're just one big family, no...
DJ KHALED I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.
DJ KHALED No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.
DJ KHALED It's safe to say headphones is a good business.
DJ KHALED I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.
DJ KHALED I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pa...
DJ KHALED Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.
DJ KHALED Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb ...
DJ KHALED I remember they used to tell me, they said, 'Khaled, you can't get a Rolls-Royce; you need t...
DJ KHALED I feel real good because it's about representing the young world and how to uplift each other an...
DJ KHALED I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?&#...
DJ KHALED The thing is that what you see on Snapchat, that's DJ Khaled. That's Khaled for real. That&#...
DJ KHALED I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels ou...
DJ QUALLS This had never been done before. He had no precedence. He was working with hard rock miners.
DJ GARRITY "The form of sculpture that I practice involves the aesthetic of the human vestige emerging from wit...
DJ GARRITY With all the stuff that they do up front, it's kind of unconventional how they walk around, so I thi...
DJ SHOCKLEY When I leave here, I'll have a direction to go.
DJ GARRITY The light will actually go right in. You can use it like an oil painting.
DJ GARRITY I admire her lifestyle, her independence.
DJ GARRITY I'm trying to go for strength, for dignity, for presence.
DJ GARRITY It's the whole concept of democracy you're really looking at there. It's amazing to see how it moves...
DJ GARRITY Basically, I'm self-taught. It's a matter of hanging in there.
DJ GARRITY Right now, it's just trying to get the nuances of sculpture, simplicity.
DJ GARRITY “My emphasis is upon creating portraits and intuitive works that project emotional intelligence an...
DJ GARRITY "Within every creative idiom one finds a range of endeavors that inform, encompass and at times defi...
DJ GARRITY Just around here, we all knew what kind of talent we had. We all knew we could play with anybody in ...
DJ SHOCKLEY Fandango was around before the Internet. Fandango is a Spanish-American dance. It's a lively tempo d...
DJ QUIK I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out....
DJ QUIK Medley for a V.
DJ QUIK Jet Set
DJ QUIK Jack Nicholson was patting me on the back and I didn't even know it. He walked up and said, 'Good jo...
DJ PAUL Right now, when you look around and listen to radio and watch television, hip-hop is taking over. Cl...
DJ PAUL This is just a step further to the roads of Hollywood that we've been traveling since our first movi...
DJ PAUL We [are] just happy as hell. We knew they said it might be nominated, but we didn't think it would b...
DJ PAUL I didn't have to say anything. The referee said it all when he held up those two hands. Enough said.
DJ HALL I'm trying to do better than what I did last year. I've got to work on the small things.
DJ HALL All that comes from coach Shula. I do what they tell me to do. If I get reps, I'll be in there, but ...
DJ HALL I know he's surprised a lot of people. At the beginning of the year all you were hearing was, Could ...
DJ HALL When we came to the huddle, Brodie came right at me. He said, 'Hey, I'm coming right to you so just ...
DJ HALL I can run, it's no problem. It's just the contact. I'm tightening up a little bit.
DJ HALL Playing the big school from home is always big. You know a lot of the guys on the other team.
DJ HALL Getting those three guys back kind of makes your confidence level go way high. When they were in the...
DJ HALL You can't pay to get on a Clue tape.
DJ CLUE I'm definitely expecting to reach a lot of new people. People going home from work, people going to ...
DJ CLUE All of the people who have gone through the program are telling me that they still feel the feelings...
DJ BUTLER They said they don't do that but they did it.
DJ BUTLER They shame you, put you down, call you stupid, you know, tell you the feelings your feeling is stupi...
DJ BUTLER You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It ...
DJ QUALLS Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a ...
KHALED HOSSEINI There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time coul...
KHALED HOSSEINI Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
KHALED HOSSEINI That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...
KHALED HOSSEINI But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
KHALED HOSSEINI ‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, edu...
KHALED HOSSEINI And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
KHALED HOSSEINI Marriage can wait, education cannot.
KHALED HOSSEINI I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathe...
KHALED HOSSEINI Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
KHALED HOSSEINI Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always find...
KHALED HOSSEINI (...) - trebala sam biti pažljivija. Nitko zbog toga ne zažali. Nikad si u starosti nećeš reći:...
KHALED HOSSEINI Ljepota je krupan, nezaslužen dar koji se dijeli nasumce, glupavo.

Tako sam odabrao svoj...
KHALED HOSSEINI There is only what you do and what you don’t do
KHALED HOSSEINI Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
KHALED HOSSEINI it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
KHALED HOSSEINI For you, a thousand times over
KHALED HOSSEINI I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the class...
KHALED HOSSEINI My parents were reasonably affluent in Kabul. In the States, we were on welfare. My mom became a wai...
KHALED HOSSEINI In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need wo...
KHALED HOSSEINI I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal ...
KHALED HOSSEINI For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
KHALED HOSSEINI I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in....
KHALED HOSSEINI When I went to Kabul - weeks after I finished 'The Kite Runner' - I met a lot of people from...
KHALED HOSSEINI I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of...
KHALED HOSSEINI Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
KHALED HOSSEINI The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness...
KHALED HOSSEINI When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being ...
KHALED HOSSEINI I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working.
KHALED HOSSEINI I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves...
KHALED HOSSEINI Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it&...
KHALED HOSSEINI Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it tak...
KHALED HOSSEINI I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's of...
KHALED HOSSEINI Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts...
KHALED HOSSEINI Syria's neighboring countries cannot and should not carry the cost of caring for refugees on the...
KHALED HOSSEINI I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ord...
KHALED HOSSEINI I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends...
KHALED HOSSEINI People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.
KHALED HOSSEINI In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself a...
KHALED HOSSEINI There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature...
KHALED HOSSEINI Too often, stories about Afghanistan center around the various wars, the opium trade, the war on ter...
KHALED HOSSEINI Afghan people are just so tired of war.
KHALED HOSSEINI Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recen...
KHALED HOSSEINI The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. ...
KHALED HOSSEINI there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] ...
KHALED HOSSEINI I've learned things about the craft of writing and about structuring a book and about character ...
KHALED HOSSEINI There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to w...
KHALED HOSSEINI I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learn...
KHALED HOSSEINI It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and year...
KHALED HOSSEINI Laila watches Mariam glue strands of yarn onto her doll's head. In a few years, this little girl wil...
KHALED HOSSEINI Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.
KHALED HOSSEINI Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted ...
KHALED HOSSEINI And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arab...
KHALED HOSSEINI She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was ...
KHALED HOSSEINI With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exh...
KHALED HOSSEINI the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treach...
KHALED HOSSEINI I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimagin...
KHALED HOSSEINI Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "F...
KHALED HOSSEINI yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obsta...
KHALED HOSSEINI Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.
KHALED HOSSEINI But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her
KHALED HOSSEINI Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; ...
KHALED HOSSEINI And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a tr...
KHALED HOSSEINI Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing c...
KHALED HOSSEINI You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, yo...
KHALED HOSSEINI You changed the subject."
"From what?"
"The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy."
KHALED HOSSEINI she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.
KHALED HOSSEINI Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any ...
KHALED HOSSEINI I will follow you to the ends of the world.
KHALED HOSSEINI A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't...
KHALED HOSSEINI A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...
KHALED HOSSEINI One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hid...
KHALED HOSSEINI Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the o...
KHALED HOSSEINI Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.
KHALED HOSSEINI The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
KHALED HOSSEINI My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of...
KHALED HOSSEINI On a high mountain I stood,
And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.
O Ali, Lion of God, K...
KHALED HOSSEINI I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swall...
KHALED HOSSEINI Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
KHALED HOSSEINI A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
KHALED HOSSEINI People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
KHALED HOSSEINI She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. R...
KHALED HOSSEINI There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
KHALED HOSSEINI In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child rela...
KHALED HOSSEINI A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he ofte...
KHALED HOSSEINI There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the tru...
KHALED HOSSEINI I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something ex...
KHALED HOSSEINI In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.
KHALED HOSSEINI It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course...
KHALED HOSSEINI I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Intern...
KHALED HOSSEINI I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I rem...
KHALED HOSSEINI You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And ye...
KHALED HOSSEINI It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you...
KHALED HOSSEINI I don't remember how I picked up 'Different Seasons,' but it was a book I read on a grav...
KHALED HOSSEINI A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon....
KHALED HOSSEINI They proposed this. Our reply was clear. We told them that we already have had two recent experience...
KHALED MASHAAL I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. Th...
KHALED HOSSEINI Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
KHALED HOSSEINI It hurts to say that,” he said, shrugging. “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted w...
KHALED HOSSEINI And I wrote you.
Volumes.
Volumes.
KHALED HOSSEINI Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,
Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
...
KHALED HOSSEINI J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will n...
KHALED HOSSEINI It was you Nabi.
It was always you.
Didn't you know?
KHALED HOSSEINI Good news equals good day
KHALED BESROUR Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty c...
KHALED HOSSEINI They will explain four main things: who our Prophet is, what Islam is all about, freedom of expressi...
AMR KHALED The reasonable among us must be heard and our voices must come out clearer than the voices of the ex...
AMR KHALED The Danish government should do a lot of things. The government should apologize.
AMR KHALED Dialogue and many practical common projects are more important. We came here to build bridges but it...
AMR KHALED We feel there are forces of extremism which are aiming to light fires and transform Denmark from a p...
AMR KHALED Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
KHALED HOSSEINI Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
KHALED HOSSEINI Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful...
KHALED HOSSEINI Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say a...
KHALED HOSSEINI You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.
KHALED HOSSEINI it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
KHALED HOSSEINI Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.
KHALED HOSSEINI At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancin...
KHALED HOSSEINI Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.
KHALED HOSSEINI Give sustenance, Allah.
Give sustenance to me.
KHALED HOSSEINI You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is...
KHALED HOSSEINI There is a way to be good again...
KHALED HOSSEINI I was greatly encouraged to launch this initiative after 93 per cent of some 80,000 Muslim youths po...
AMR KHALED When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of ...
KHALED HOSSEINI I say enough to the truce.
KHALED MASHAAL One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swel...
KHALED HOSSEINI The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I ...
KHALED HOSSEINI This of course is a big sum, and it is bigger than what Arab summits in Amman and Beirut had approve...
KHALED MESHAAL I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.
His saying that made me kind of...
KHALED HOSSEINI No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.
KHALED HOSSEINI I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
KHALED HOSSEINI It is illogical for the victim to be pressed to recognize its murderer and occupier. What is require...
KHALED MESHAAL