Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elmore Leonard

I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer to it, and you have to cross things out. You put a line through it, but it's still there. You might need it. When you erase a line on a computer, it's gone forever.

Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

We knew we had to do something which would really create awareness, because our market position was very weak. And we knew if we tried to do the same as our competitor it wouldn't work. We needed to do something they wouldn't copy.

We learned last week we had no director. The executive committee then met (with the commissioners) but we were not told the reasons for Fred leaving. I wasn't aware of any problems and this sort of came out of the blue. He had been doing a good job, I thought, on our comprehensive plan and other projects.

Alex Tanguay

We're still way behind them (six points) in the standings, so I think we have to be aware of that, ... We knew it was going to be an important weekend for us, and they're a very good hockey team, so we have to make sure we're ready.

We're trying to raise awareness of fallen heroes. We support our president and his decision. We're proud of our military.

Michael Taylor

We're trying to keep the motorists informed and up to speed on what's happening and just aware and safe as they travel the roads.

I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door - I'm aware of it.

Bill Viola

There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.

Bjorn Lomborg

We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.

Billy Collins

I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.

There are a lot of really positive things going on at GM. We want to get people's awareness higher for General Motors. What better way than for employees to offer what has traditionally been just for them?

Donald Rumsfeld

There are many teams of people out looking at the sites that we're aware of, ... But, as I say, I don't think we're going to just stumble over something. I think people are going to come up finally, and say, 'Here's what happened. Here's what they've done,' and already there are things that have been related to us that have been helpful.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.

Claude Levi-Strauss

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Deepika Padukone

I try and work out as often as possible. Since I travel very often, it becomes very difficult to have a daily work out routine, but I practice yoga every day or try and play some sport. Also, I am very aware of what suits my body in terms of food and exercise.

Alan Alda

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

Derek Jeter

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

Doug Jones

When you're on camera, even though you try to lose yourself in the character, you are aware that there is a camera there capturing every moment of it visually. With doing a voiceover job, you are worried about the sound of it, and you have to make all those visual colors come out with your sound.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.

Ahmed Zewail

The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.

Mike Figgis

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

We have to be very aware of defending the three-point line.

We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

This will be one of the first times ever that we're aware of that owners and wine makers can see what people like. Some of them win all the time. The professional judges love their wine and so they know they can win. Today, this weekend, all bets are off.

The only thing the Olympics can do pretty consistently is raise awareness of a new project, and you can usually elicit sampling. Once you've done that, it really comes down to whether the shows deliver at that point.

The play has a dark side, it deals with things we don't want to see. It has to do with awareness of a world we tend to ignore and this is why the play is different from previous ones.

The players think it was two lost and I think that it was one gained. I think it was one gained because eleven players didn't turn up - we had five. W e had five in the first half and we might have had five in the second half at times. However they're kids and because they're kids they probably aren't aware that things are not going particularly well but they still kept going forward.

The PGA Tour schedule was set for 2002 through 2006. They were obviously aware of when we were playing when the Champions Tour decided to schedule their tournament in Cary.

The president was aware of the incident, but she considered it as a minor event and did not effect the lifting.