Quotes of: Am Keyword

Eyes, so easily deceived, might judge more rightly with lids closed, allowing ears and heart to remain wide open." from "The Beauty of Ugh

I am not Frazzle!: And other stories for grown-ups

I am somebody's son, and I know a guy I call "Dad." Those two things are unrelated.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Jacksonville welcomed the World Golf Hall of Fame with open arms and wallets in 1998. If you’re not familiar with golf, it’s a sport where you swing a stick at a ball, like baseball in a way, only with more action to the game.

I am Jacksonville

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Italian Journey

In 1948 fishing was outlawed in Jacksonville by decree of the king. But nobody, besides my grandpa, listened to him, because he’d been dead for centuries—the king, not my grandpa. My grandpa had only been dead a decade.

I am Jacksonville

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

Immortality

Right. That's twenty-two fifty." "Twenty-two fifty?" We can't hide our exasperation. "Well, yeah - this is a classy joint, you know." "That's obvious - the service is incredible.

I Am the Messenger

I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings.

Interviews/Entrevistas

I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

The majority of our relationship took place over the phone, saving me tons of calories in unswallowed semen.

I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one.

I Am Radar

He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you.

The Indigo Spell

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

I Am Legend and Other Stories

But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It isn’t fear that will defeat them. Not fear or faith or hope or even love, but rage.

The Infinite Sea

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Then I learnt of “white Christmas”, which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.

I Am Tausi

... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

I Drink Therefore I am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine

Je me souviens de mon effroi devant un premier baiser. Et si l'autre me mangeait la langue? C'est d'abord mon meilleur morceau de viande que je lui confie aveuglément.

I Am a Japanese Writer

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty...

Into the Wild

To put it bluntly, he could die. Any moment. But so could Robert and Sal and Toby. At least I am here with him. He's not alone. Our other boys? They are alone out there without us.

I'll Be Seeing You

Ordinarily, I am not in complete alignment with anyone elses thinking but my own and that of Jesus Christ." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries