“I am delighted to add another unplayable work to the repertoire.”
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) Austrian-American composer
On his Violin Concerto (Op. 36), as quoted in Schoenberg (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 149
Undated
“I am squirming with delight to meet an intellectual colossus.”
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Munir Butt (1940–2015) British diplomat
Speaking about Bill Clinton, Source: The Times, 1997.
“I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Hope floods my heart with delight!”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Dryad Song (1900)
Context: I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Hope floods my heart with delight!
Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling,
Upward I mount, — faith is sight, life is feeling,
Hope is the day-star of might!
“I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again / I am to see to it that I do not lose you”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Manmohan Singh (1932) 13th Prime Minister of India
On the popularity of Rajnikanth in Japan, as quoted in "'Dancing Maharaja' Rajnikant is a rage in Japan" http://www.hindustantimes.com/nm20/dancing-maharaja-rajnikant-is-a-rage-in-japan/article1-185499.aspx, Hindustan Times (15 December 2006) <br class="br">2006-2010
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
Edmund Burke book A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Part I Section XIV
Compare: Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, xv: "In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us"
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
