Here I Am Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Arvo Part

  Silence, Comfort, Moments

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• People that don’t know and hear about it, they start to think that all the people that do jiu-jitsu smokes pot, is a drug addict. Here I am fighting for something good, and the guy is fighting for something bad, in my point of view. I can’t agree with that, what he represents. Nothing to do with his jiu-jitsu, his school. If you want to do something like that, do it in private. Keep it to yourself.

  Royce Gracie

  School, Fighting, Thinking

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• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  Caprice Bourret

  Thinking, Lists, Arbitrage

  "My nine to five: Caprice Bourret" by Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

  Eric Burdon

  Senior, Growing Up, Heart

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• Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

  Stevie Wonder

  Dream, Sadness, Years

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• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Mel Torme

  Song, Eight, Nine

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• 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.

  Louise Erdrich

  Irritated, Feels, Ought

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• All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.

  David Selby

  Horse, Couple, Thinking

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• See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.... Think of it. On the surface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns. Here on the ocean floor is the only independence. Here I am free.

  Earl Felton

  Ocean, Fighting, Exercise

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• You told me there wouldn’t be any Rod Serling voice-overs, yet here I am in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode. Oh, and let me guess the title of it, Night of the Terminally Stupid! (Channon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Twilight, Night

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Dragonswan”, p.37, Penguin

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• Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.

  William Nicholson

  Selfish, People, May

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• Here I am with a seriously hunky guy and I'm covered in demon pee. Why does the universe hate me?

  Jana Oliver

  Hate, Guy, Doe

  Jana Oliver (2011). “The Demon Trapper's Daughter: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Flying High, Sight, Giving

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Waiting, Forget, Moments

  Anton Chekhov (2007). “Chekhov Plays”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!

  Rick Riordan

  Phones, Cells, Monsters

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.984, Penguin UK

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• Here I am in a rabbit run, here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I could pretend I’m speaking to everyone—assume a middle distance and transcend myself—but I’m taking to you and you know it.

  Richard Siken

  Running, Distance, Waiting

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• I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Pain, Thinking, Creating

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• Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Strong, Fire, Light

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• In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Book, Literature

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any trouble. Goodness, that would just ruin my whole evening." I strolled and hummed, trying to project Innocent Victim.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Running, Night, Trying

  MaryJanice Davidson (2010). “Undead And Unwed: Number 1 in series”, p.183, Hachette UK

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• We're on vacation, Kaia, Strider grumbled. You weren't invited. She waved away his words as if they were unimportant. Deep down I know you meant to invite me, so ta-da. Here I am. You're welcome. It's scary how well you know us. Here, pay for this, William said, dumping his candy into Strider's arms. We'll be in the care. Making out.

  Gena Showalter

  Vacation, Scary, Care

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.148, HQN Books

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• I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Dream, Names, Two

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• I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Body, Dolls, Sickness

  Sylvia Plath (2012). “Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wells, Bottom

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• Oh, I never kid about Artemis. I promised her I’d sit here and do nothing, so here I am doing nothing. Much like a really tall, bored guard dog. Personally, I’d rather be throwing myself onto an electric fence- be about the same, I think. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dog, Kids, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.327, Macmillan

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