Am Quotes

I am rich enough.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

I don't want to be wondering about how skinny I am, wondering what I'm going to eat because I don't want to gain and I want to look hot and young, always and forever.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

If I am elected President, the Castro regime will have no reason to doubt our unwavering commitment to your cause. The regime will feel the full weight of American resolve.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.