Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

Jamie Lee Curtis

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.

Anton Chekhov

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

Arvo Part

Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.

Bruce Lee

Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?

Bob Dylan

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...

Elizabeth Scott

And yet here I am. Broken and bleeding on the inside, heartsick, I am here.

Ally Carter

I thought you might need a ride.' 'The headmaster's office called me a car.' He shrugged, indifferent but amused. 'And here I am in a submarine.

Aldous Huxley

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

Ali Landry

I grew up in Louisiana, a lot of carbohydrates, fried foods, all very good. Butter, lots of homemade cakes and cookies. Here I am in Los Angeles and just really educating myself about food. Once you know better, you do better.

Angela Lansbury

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

Chuck Palahniuk

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

Billy Corgan

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

Evelyn Waugh

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

George Burns

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

Milton Friedman

George Stigler was a delightful correspondent. In a letter from London in 1948, after remarking on the inconvertibility of the pound and the inedible, still-rationed food, he concluded, "So here I am losing weight and gaining pounds.

Isak Dinesen

Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

Imelda Marcos

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

Pat Sajak

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

Patrick Ness

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

Marilyn Manson

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.

Paul Erdos

Here I am: My brain is open.

Homer

And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

Jamaica Kincaid

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

Frantz Fanon

I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.

Louise Erdrich

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

Eckhart Tolle

When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.

Lee Brice

I don't dance, But here I am Spinning you around and around in circles It Ain't my style, but I don't care I'd do anything with you anywhere Yes, you got me in the palm of your hand Cause, I don't dance.

Max Lucado

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

Jimmy Carr

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

John F. Kerry

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.

Hayley Wickenheiser

I'm really happy that it's in Russia. I've had a lot of success here. I had my first world championships here when I was younger so I am happy to do the Olympics here. I am really enjoying myself.