All Quotes

I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions... There are people who I think can do any room, and do stadiums and thousand-seat theaters, and then there are people like me who just perform for my parents.
‐‐ Maria Bamford

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.
‐‐ George Foreman

I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

I am a woman above everything else.
‐‐ Jackie Kennedy

I am a woman after all, so some days I feel good and sexy in a bikini, and other days, I'm like, 'Where are my caftans?!'
‐‐ Behati Prinsloo

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.
‐‐ Chantal Akerman

I am a woman and, second, I have been to war. I am a combat veteran. This is not a war on women, and anytime Democrats use the word 'war,' they need to do it to honor our servicemen and women.
‐‐ Joni Ernst

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.
‐‐ Josefina Vazquez Mota

I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.
‐‐ Karen Elson

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
‐‐ Ann Aguirre

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.
‐‐ Jenni Rivera

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
‐‐ Ednita Nazario

I am a woman, therefore I am a problem solver.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.
‐‐ Mata Hari

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

I am a woman who, you know, I run my own business. I don't need a man financially, for anything, but just to be a companion.
‐‐ Jessica White

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.
‐‐ Elyn Saks

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
‐‐ Andrea Hirata

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.
‐‐ Lucy Hawking

I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
‐‐ Brian Aldiss

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.
‐‐ Lee Gutkind

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
‐‐ Flannery O'Connor

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
‐‐ Ma Jian

I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
‐‐ James Ellroy

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
‐‐ Robert Frost

I am a writer of fragments.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
‐‐ L. Ron Hubbard

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
‐‐ Gwendolyn Brooks

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.
‐‐ Brian McKnight

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
‐‐ Eudora Welty

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
‐‐ Andrea Hirata

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.
‐‐ Jorge Amado

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.
‐‐ Brandon Sanderson

I am a Yale Law School graduate.
‐‐ Cory Booker

I am a Yes fan, ultimately. I've been a member of the band, but I was always a fan of the band first.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.
‐‐ Evan Spiegel

I am a Zionist.
‐‐ Yair Lapid

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel

I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories I've enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, 'What happens in 20 years?'
‐‐ Seanan McGuire

I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
‐‐ Baba Kalyani

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
‐‐ Pope John XXIII

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.
‐‐ Alicia Keys