I Quotes
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“I am growing so peevish about my writing. I am like a man whose ear is true but who plays falsely on the violin: his fingers refuse to reproduce precisely those sounds of which he has the inward sense. Then the tears come rolling down from the poor scraper's eyes and the bow falls from his hand.”
Source: The letters
“I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.”
“I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker.”
“I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot of the museums are free, there are restaurants that are reasonably priced.”
“I am growing up and growing soul.”
“I am growing up. I am losing some illusions, perhaps to acquire others.”
Source: Orlando
“I am grown in so many ways, but in front of my parents I am still a child. I am having a hard time throwing off the skin that I pick and peel. I am the only one who can do it, but I can’t seem to let myself.”
Source: I Don't Want To Be Crazy
“I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“I am grown up. That's why I cooked all this food!”
“I am guided by the belief that everyone desires freedom, fulfillment, and success. All three come from understanding the emotional elements and transforming them into sharable creative expressions. This gives your life and business meaning.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.”
Source: This Thing Called You
“I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.”
“I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.”
Source: My Dearest Daughter: A Letter from the Death Cell
“I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time”
“I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.”
“I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.”
“I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.”
“I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.”
“I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.”
“I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.”
“I am half black, and I am half white, and I will not apologize for my race.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“I am half child, half ancient.”
“I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace.”
“I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.”
“I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.”
“I am halfway through Hillary Clinton's latest called "Living History"...pretty lighthearted on the scale...unlike David Hick's autobiography...I had to skip a couple of hundred pages in the middle of that one because it was too distressing for me to read. Undoubtedly yours will be the same...I will read the beginning, skip all the awful bit in the middle and read your happy ever after bit at the end.”
Source: Prison post: Letters of support for Peter Greste
“I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.”
“I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.”
Source: Lyrics:1962-2012
“I am happier now than I have ever been.”
“I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.”
“I am happiest in the brush and by myself - whether that's the woods of northern Minnesota or the wilds of Alaska behind a dogteam, picking through the foothills of the mountains by my ranch in New Mexico on horseback, or on the ship of my sailboat on the Pacific - so I guess it made sense to me that both Brian and Samuel would find their challenges and adventures, if that's what you call them, in the woods.”
“I am happiest when I am alone.”
“I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.”
“I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.”
“I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew.”
“I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.”
“I am, happily, entirely ordinary in just about every way.
But I have my writing practice, and that matters.”
Source: More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
“I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business.”
“I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.”
“I am happy and content because I think I am.”
“I am happy and proud that during one year of presidency, my initiatives have been strongly supported by the people and society and we have launched the process of vitally important state reforms.”
“I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress”
“I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.”
“I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.”
“I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.”
“I am happy being based in Leeds, I feel settled.”
“I am happy being what I am.”
Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town