All Quotes

It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
‐‐ Calvin Klein

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
‐‐ Judith Butler

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.
‐‐ Ray Romano

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
‐‐ Russell Baker

It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
‐‐ John Paul Jones

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
‐‐ Max Beerbohm

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.
‐‐ Sheikh Hasina

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.
‐‐ Janis Ian

It seems to be that more and more people are asking you to work for nothing on films, and that's unfortunate because you have to make a living. On the other hand, I don't do a better job because I get paid a lot of money. I'm never like, 'I'm not going to work as hard because I'm not getting paid as much.'
‐‐ Matt Dillon

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.
‐‐ Peter Steele

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
‐‐ John Negroponte

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
‐‐ Susan George

It seems to be the way I get jobs - I book a holiday, I get to the other side of the world, then I'll get the job.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
‐‐ Jack Vance

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.
‐‐ George Saunders

It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.
‐‐ Yani Tseng

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
‐‐ Barbara Bush

It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
‐‐ Aaron Eckhart

It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
‐‐ Louise Gluck

It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.
‐‐ Gloria Reuben

It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.
‐‐ Liz Phair

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
‐‐ Frank Auerbach

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
‐‐ Isadora Duncan

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.
‐‐ Tim Bishop

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
‐‐ Carlisle Floyd

It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.
‐‐ Clark Blaise

It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.
‐‐ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
‐‐ Jonathan Franzen

It seems to me so much technology could be applied to entertainment. Augmented reality, and even just the iPad - touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.
‐‐ Justine Bateman

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
‐‐ Leon Kass

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
‐‐ Beryl Bainbridge

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
‐‐ Raymond Queneau

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.
‐‐ Max Lucado

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.
‐‐ Louise L. Hay

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
‐‐ Penelope Lively

It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
‐‐ John Burroughs

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
‐‐ Ernst Mayr

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
‐‐ Gail Carriger

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.
‐‐ Diana Wynne Jones

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.
‐‐ Gene Robinson

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
‐‐ Jon Voight

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?
‐‐ Ruth Pitter

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.
‐‐ Billy Connolly

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.
‐‐ Rod McKuen

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
‐‐ Pierre Loti