Quotes of: I-am-what-i-am Keyword

Why didn’t you dare it before? he asked harshly. When I hadn’t a job? When I was starving? When I was just as I am now, as a man, as an artist, the same Martin Eden? That’s the question. I’ve been asking myself for many a day. My brain is the...

Unknown

Soon I find myself squatting on the floor. I am still striking my face; not with my fists this time, but with wide-open hands. I am slapping myself. The sounds I make when my palms meet my cheeks are like an unrelenting round of applause. I am clappi...

Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories

Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your purpose of life. What matters is not the Duration of your life, but the Donation of it.

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be...

Eat, Pray, Love

Tell me what you felt when you first looked at me, Branwyn," he persisted, apparently oblivious to their audience. "What you feel now." The memory shook her with its intensity. "I saw light. I felt fire. I knew joy. Now I' am bursting with love. Take...

Viking For Hire

I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and tha...

Kat Graham

It doesn't matter how I express myself artistically. It doesn't matter what medium I use to showcase my art. And it doesn't matter how talented I am. There will always be the indifference that keeps those from wanting to enjoy what I have to offer. B...

Darnell Houston

Ray: What am I gonna do, Ken? What am I gonna do? Ken: Just keep movin'. Keep on movin'. Try not to think about it. Learn a new language, maybe? Ray: Sure. I can hardly do English. [pause] Ray: That's one thing I like about Europe, though. You don't ...

In Bruges

I am such a romantic at heart. I don't think I will ever write a book that doesn't have at lease an underlying love story. There's just something about it that makes me feel alive when I write it. Romance is beautiful. It's sacred. It's messy. It's w...

Allison J. Kennedy

If I give you and apple and ask you, “What is that?” You reply, “An apple.” “How do you know it’s an apple.” “Because it just is.” “How did it get to be an apple?” “It came form an apple.” “Exactly. So when I ask you, ‘W...

Toni Sorenson

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

David Brainerd

I am, I know I am, the use of God’s limitless opulence and supply.

Don't Think Of a Blue Ball

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

Ted Nugent

I am quite hard to live with, and I know that if I go through a bad run, I'm not the best company and am best left alone. But I'm not nearly as bad as people like to make out.

Tony McCoy

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

Kate Winslet

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.

Killosophy

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

Saturn's Children

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

Notes from Underground

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

Love Among the Chickens

Lost in New York City. Not that I don't know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going.

The Little Silkworm

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe