I Am Quotes

I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.

~ Nimrat Kaur

I am a romantic, I admit it.

~ Keith Jarrett

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

~ Philippa Gregory

Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God's word, I am confronted; when I read God's word, it reads me; when I seek God's presence, He seeks me.

~ Mike Yaconelli

Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

~ Garcelle Beauvais

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

~ Laurene Powell Jobs

In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters are and trying to build the relationship dynamic and things like that. Then, also, I am outlining.

~ Joe Swanberg

I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.

~ Rand Paul

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

~ Christopher Hitchens

I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compatible with.

~ George Takei

I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I am just comfortable with myself and am always on an adventure.

~ Shekhar Kapur

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

~ Sharad Pawar

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

~ Jim Carrey

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

~ Paulo Coelho

I am stable when my private life is a success.

~ Don Johnson

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

~ Jim Carrey

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

~ Sebastian Coe

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.

~ Danny Glover

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

~ Alfred Russel Wallace

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

~ Maya Angelou

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

~ John Cage

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

~ John Donne

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

~ Téa Obreht

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

~ N. Scott Momaday

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

~ F. Sionil José

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

~ Margaret Atwood

I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

~ Joseph Brodsky

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

~ Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

~ Omari Hardwick

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

~ Seamus Heaney

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

~ Felix Dennis

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

~ Rita Dove

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

~ Natasha Trethewey

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

~ Vikram Seth

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

~ Colm Tóibín

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

~ Philip Levine

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

~ Hart Crane

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

~ Ira Hayes