`` I am.

Now, are you going to take me or am I supposed to walk ''??

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.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Another editor pointed despairingly at a bundle of letters that had accumulated for him, saying, `` But Mr. Hearst, what shall I do with this correspondence ''??

Your self-control in this respect will be the only witness to your understanding of what I am saying.

I remember him pointing out of the window and saying that he wished he could live to see another spring but that he wouldn't.

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

`` But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me??

I submit that it cannot be dismissed simply by saying we are not facing the facts of life.

The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:

In that moment of vision Adam heard the voice within himself saying: I must not hate him, I must not hate him or I shall die.

Lovingly, she accepted, and so great was my emotion that all I could think of saying was, `` You're amazing, you know ''??

I purposely refrained from adding the usual distinction of saying that he was from the State of Texas.

The father, accurately perceiving the child's needs, not only respected them as worthy of his attention, but immediately satisfied them by taking him on his lap along with the twins, saying, `` I have a big lap ; ;

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

I do mean, however, that I take them for granted, and that everything I shall be saying would appear quite idiotic against any contrary assumptions.

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.

I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

`` Nope, just you, all the time -- sometimes I think it's the only way I'll ever get a decent partner ''.

`` I only said I was hungry.

His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

I was chairman, the only not youthful participant.

The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.