Am Quotes (page 160)

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• mother
• little
• my mother

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am. Andy Rooney

• design
• death
• wild

ERANNA TO SAPPHOO You wild adept at throwing! Like a spear by other things, I'd lainthere beside my next of kin. Your strainflung me far. To where's beyond my knowing. None can bring me back again. Sisters think upon me as they twine, and the house is full of warm relation. I alone am out of the design, and I tremble like a supplication; for the lovely goddess all creationbowers in legend lives this life of mine. SAPPHO TO ERANNAWith unrest I want to inundate you, want to brandish you, you... Rainer Maria Rilke

• manly
• drinking
• bear

Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me. Flann O'Brien

• personality
• writing
• personal

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face. Michel Foucault

• size
• sizes
• sized

I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size J. R. R. Tolkien

• men
• leading
• otherness

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men Charles Darwin

• beautiful
• beauty
• waiting

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins. Waiting on the silent shelf. Anne Sexton

• greatness
• look
• great man

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. Victor Hugo

• mother
• hope
• angel

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln

• time
• pain
• humble

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time! George Bernard Shaw

• water
• together
• watering

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more. Theodore Roethke

• business
• food
• busy

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating. Wendell Berry

• arrogant
• cocky
• end

At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all. Suzanne Collins

• dark
• night
• tree

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. Friedrich Nietzsche

• happy
• kindness
• happiness

I am kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy J. D. Salinger