`` 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.

He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.

At first I thought he had missed.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

Gracias '', I hollered, my first long swallow filling me with confidence and immediately doubling the size of my Spanish vocabulary.

I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.

But first I want to quote him on the relationship that he found between religion and politics in this country and what happened to it.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

I had had difficulties from the very first day.

As a groundwork for the proposal I give some attention to the first task enumerated above, the clarification of goal.

For this reason, then I want to describe, first, two examples of the puritanical attacks: Stephen Gosson's The School Of Abuse, 1579, and his later Playes Confuted, published in 1582.

The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.

I don't know yet, it's crazy ; ;

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

I did not despair, however ; ;

I suppose you don't know anything about a piece of two-by-four, either ; ;

Then I saw the father's head slightly turn ; ;

Quickly but carefully lowering my duffel bag over the low side-rack, I stepped on the running board ; ;

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

The finished -- and drastically cut -- product would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce entering the suds, then bursting above the pool's surface clad in layers of lavender lather, and I had a hunch this item was going to sell tons and tons of soap ; ;

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;