Am Quotes

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

Even when I think I'm wrong I'm right. I am all-knowing.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

I am no politician.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.