#rene

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#conscious #earn #either #enjoying #i

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#different #different things #foreign #foreign oil #fuel

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #awareness #commentary #dickens #fiction

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#ceasing #constant #constant state #even #god

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal. ↗

— John Poindexter

#awareness #believes #could #ever #goal

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#entrepreneurial #one thing #people #thing #try

There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#different #entrepreneurial #heads #little #some

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#believes #constantly #death #dialogue #does

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. ↗

— Jean Racine

#lovers #quarrels #renewal

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#awareness #cheering #go #had #i