What Am I Quotes

#1. I know what you're thinking because I know how your mind works."
She imagined giving him the finger. "What am I thinking?"
"You want me to go screw myself."
"Close enough.

Melissa Landers

#2. When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?

Pablo Neruda

#3. My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.

Carol Bartz

#4. Speaking of, her family is due in any minute to claim her body. What am I supposed to tell them when we can't give the body over? Again, I don't think 'oops' will quite cover it. (Tate)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say? My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep?

Mary Brunner

#6. did you just say 'gee whiz' to me? what am I, nine? I am a woman-

Christopher Moore

#7. Twenty percent? What am I, your waiter? I got you five vampires, not a BLT.

Richard Kadrey

#8. What am I doing now, I'm trying to see where I am, so as to be able to go elsewhere, should occasion arise, or else simply to say, You have merely to wait till they come and fetch you, that's my impression at times.

Samuel Beckett

#9. I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?"
"My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?

Kim Harrison

#10. What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

John Milton

#11. Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

Jimmy Cliff

#12. I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?

Jamaica Kincaid

#13. The truth is that this was something over which I had no control and the question is not why but what. What am I going to do with this? What am I going to make of it?

Vicki Forman

#14. What am I lying here for? ... We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time ... Am I waiting until I become a little older?

Xenophon

#15. What was the purpose of a woman monster?
It came out in a whisper. 'What am I for?

Kristin Cashore

#16. What am I gonna do with me?" she whispered. "So lost in you.

Max Monroe

#17. If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?"

Ed Bliss

#18. Sometimes I wake up at night in a panic. Wondering: What will my life be like? And sometimes I even wonder: Who am I? What am I doing here, on this planet, in this city, in this house? And it gives me the shivers, makes me panic.

Robert Cormier

#19. I can only answer the question "What am I to do?" if I can answer the prior question "Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?" Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

Wesley Hill

#20. What am I going to do with you? Fucking slut. Fucked him while I was gone. Couldn't last three days. How much does it take to satisfy you?

Stylo Fantome

#21. I remember looking at myself in the mirror one morning and thinking, I am not a handsome guy. What am I going to do with a face like this? Then I smiled. And I thought, That helps.

John C. Maxwell

#22. If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

Samuel Beckett

#23. I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home ... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

Elizabeth Warren

#24. As a car lover, I ask myself, 'What am I going to be buying in the future? Will it be a boring, underpowered, dorky car because the government tells me I shouldn't pollute? Or do I come up with a cool-looking, sexy dream car that is also part of the future?'

Henrik Fisker

#25. The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ... What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

John Ashcroft

#26. What am I doing with my soul? Interrogate yourself, to find out what inhabits your so-called mind and what kind of soul you have now. A child's soul, an adolescent's, a woman's? A tyrant's soul? The soul of a predator - or its prey?

Marcus Aurelius

#27. It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show ... " I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else.

Sharon Van Etten

#28. What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'

Chris Evans

#29. She tried to imagine her former self. Enemy. Prisoner. Friend? Daughter. Spy. Prisoner again. "What am I now?"
Sarsine held both of Kestrel's hands. "What ever you want to be.

Marie Rutkoski

#30. What am I doing here?" asked Shadow.
"In Lakeside, I mean. Not in the world.

Neil Gaiman

#31. I laughed under my breath, and it sounded bitter. "Listen to me. What am I talking about, worth it? Is any experience or bit of beauty worth the cost of my life? I know nothing but safety and self-preservation at all costs."
"And yet," he said softly, "you're risking everything to help me.

Kate Avery Ellison

#32. What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?

Kyle Chandler

#33. When we look at what we have to offer - our skills, gifts, and desires - before asking what is needed of us, we are putting the cart before the horse, or the gifts before the call. The question a disciple must first ask is not, "What am I good at?" but rather, "What is required of me?

Jeff Goins

#34. I'm perfectly fine with being used. But I would like to know for what I'm being used.
Distraction
That much I gathered. What am I supposed to be distracting you from? There's a chance that if I knew, I could do my job more effectively.

Kody Keplinger

#35. We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.

Vijay Seshadri

#36. What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?

Selima Hill

#37. What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I will have enjoyed myself.

Victor Hugo

#38. Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

Clint Eastwood

#39. Oh, what am I going to do with this life I have been given." I said to myself as I sat and thought about life, and how screwed up mine really was. I was brought back into reality by Colin's answer.

Nicole Eglinger

#40. We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."

Benjamin Carson

#41. Who am I kidding? What am I going to do with a girl like her?"
"We had this talk when we were fourteen. I even brought my brother's Hustler for visual assistance.

Shelly Laurenston

#42. What am I doing with my life? Am I just going to some humdrum job that I don't really want to be at, doing some minuscule task, getting paid to be a mindless drone? Or am I out there living life, on my terms, the way I want to live it, doing the things that I want to do?

Kai Greene

#43. I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?"

Antonio Banderas

#44. A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

George Orwell

#45. I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?

Don McCullin

#46. If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

Erma Bombeck

#47. The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

O. Winston Link

#48. Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.'

Hideo Kojima

#49. I'm horrible at these things, 'cause I'm a horrible date.What's a good date? A nice dinner and a movie? I don't know. What are dates? An amusement park? What am I supposed to say? Hmm. I have no idea.

Drake Bell

#50. If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

Zoot Sims

#51. What am I to you?"
He brought his forehead to hers, staring into her, his eyes holding nothing but naked truth. "I've loved you for so long ... You're my downfall," he whispered, his words breaking, " ... and my fucking salvation.

Dianna Hardy

#52. I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

Pat Morita

#53. One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

Pam Houston

#54. Oh my god what am I doing with my life?

El-P

#55. Sometimes, when I walk out onto the track I think, 'What am I doing here? Why do I put myself through this?' But that's when you really get into your focus ... you focus on the race you are going to run.

Kelly Holmes

#56. What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Max Beckmann

#57. They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modelling.

Lew Wallace

#58. What are you looking at? she asks.
What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was
put on this earth to find? Yes.

Pete Wentz

#59. But why do you want me? I mean, what am I? Ask yourself that."
"I often have.

P.G. Wodehouse

#60. You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a 'Tom Ford' jacket? What do I believe in?

Tom Ford

#61. If your audience doesn't like something, you should think to yourself, "Well, why don't they like something? Is there something wrong here?" And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, "Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?," and deal with those issues.

David Shore

#62. I got a vibrator that needed two nine volt batteries. What am I - R2D2? I don't know what to do with that.

Chelsea Handler

#63. I already shred all my mail. What am I supposed to do now? Use pay phones? Smoke signals? Train pigeons? There's no such thing as privacy anymore.

Dennis Adams

#64. When dark, it's bright, when brightest, it's gone. When gone for good, so will I be.
What am I?

Avi

#65. What am I supposed to call you?'
'Your Royal Husbandnes. It's required by law, I'm afraid

Kiera Cass

#66. The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

Johnny Depp

#67. But for a man, it's different. Like, separation can take years - it can take years to make divorce final. What am I supposed to do during those years? I think that's, you know it's not the *craziest* thing, but it's where a lot of rumors come from. It's frustrating.

Khloe Kardashian

#68. I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.

Julie Andrews

#69. I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

Lou Reed

#70. If men don't know what's happening, what they're doing, where they're going
what are women to do? If Richard doesn't know what kind of world he wants, how am I to help him make it? What am I to tell our sons?

James Baldwin

#71. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

Lance Armstrong

#72. The fatal stoop. It's guaranteed to bring a man to his knees. (Kristen)
It sounds dangerous. What am I supposed to do, knock him over the head with something? (Serenity)

Kinley MacGregor

#73. I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Janet Jackson

#74. Note to self: It's a good idea to ask, What am I not doing?

Ben Horowitz

#75. I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in when you're like: 'What am I supposed to write about now? I don't feel heartbroken, so now what?'

Jenny Lewis

#76. What am I missing, Abby?

Blake Crouch

#77. Why?" he asked Pate. "What am I to them?"
"A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said.

George R R Martin

#78. Q: Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones. What am I? A: Memories - A FOLK RIDDLE

Jennifer McMahon

#79. Unfortunately, one mirror is as treacherous as another, reflecting at some point in every adventure the same vain unsatisfied face, and so when she asks what have I done? she means really what am I doing? as one usually does.

Truman Capote

#80. On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

Stephen King

#81. First he accuses me of trying to do the right thing, and now he tells me he trusts me. What am I, a fucking priestess?

A.F.E. Smith

#82. Give it to me," I begged. "Tell me you're going to be a good girl," he replied. "Never." I wouldn't make a promise I couldn't keep. "What am I going to do with you?" Auric growled.

Eve Langlais

#83. What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?

Walt Whitman

#84. I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

Charlie Hunnam

#85. Yeah, but you got claws and shit. I've got nothin' other than my cock. What am I gonna do, turkey slap any eternal to death?

Mark Alders

#86. What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#87. You aren't actually defending the Devil, are you?" Macon held up his hand. "Wait. What am I saying? He's probably your mentor.

Kami Garcia

#88. There are some questions that we all ask ourselves in different ways: Who am I? Who is God? What am I here for? What matters most? What matters least? What are my unique talents and abilities? What will my contribution be? What happens when we die?

Matthew Kelly

#89. What am I dying for?

Stephenie Meyer

#90. As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

Arthur F. Burns

#91. When the first 'Hellboy' series came out, in the same batch of fan mail I got a letter from somebody from the Church of Satan, and I got a letter from a minister, and they both liked it. And I thought, 'What am I doing that I'm making both these guys happy?'

Mike Mignola

#92. I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

Rashida Jones

#93. What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers?

Greg Egan

#94. I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?

Alyson Richman

#95. Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

D.H. Lawrence

#96. I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.

Alex Honnold

#97. There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#98. When my syndicated show got canceled, the next day I still knew how to write jokes. That was a huge revelation. Because at first you think, "I won't have any shelter! What am I gonna do? The sun is hot. Very thirsty."

Jon Stewart

#99. I lit the candles and said out loud, "what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?" And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.

Paula Heller Garland

#100. What am I doing on a level of consciousness where this is real? That is the first question to ask yourself when you become aware of something ugly or evil or stupid.

Thaddeus Golas