`` I am.

I am with you, of course, Tomas ''.

And Hank Maguire added, `` So am I, Tom ''.

You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

I don't suppose a wife should be grateful to her husband for saving her life, but I am.

`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.

I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.

I am concerned here, however, with the Northern liberal's attitude toward the South.

I should like, by the way, to make it clear that I am not using the word `` Persians '' carelessly.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.

I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.

I am not a philosopher.

`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.

What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.

Also, I am convinced that if my company were a sole proprietorship instead of a partnership, I would have been even abler to solve long-range problems for myself and my fellow-employees.

I am not making a clinical judgment here, for such personal tragedies are real and are commonplace in the analyst's consulting room, but literature makes a different claim upon our sympathies than tragedy in life.

I am suggesting that a case-history approach to the Oedipus complex is a blind alley for a storyteller.

I am only singling out differences in treatment of a theme and the resultant effects.

I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.

I am an attorney, not an instrument of vengeance ''.

Miriam said that she must be assured that `` that other woman, Olga, will not be in luxury while I am scraping along ''.

`` This is a mighty empty country '', Morgan said.

This is the Rafter Aj.

Laurel is gone, my men are gone, Ed is dead -- and you come to me, to help me.

But California is where we're goin ''.

Clayton is with him, takin him out of the valley.

His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.

California is too far, he thought.

`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.

`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

`` Gray Eyes is back,, Montero said.

`` This is Mitchell Barton.

That's really all he's got, all he is.

that is, to show no curiosity whatsoever.

`` But to take him and leave his mother behind is not good ''.

`` Exterminatin' cow thieves is just a business proposition with me '', he'd blandly announce.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.