Why do the lives of writers seem so… train-wrecky?

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.

Frank’s bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It’s Michael Jordan’s school!

I’ve met so many people of my son’s generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote...

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work – thanks, I suppose, to their parents’ lingering vinyl collections.

Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I’m as bald as a billiard ball!

People always ask me if I’m nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn’t seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.

Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops...

Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.

I’m not up on today’s television for children, because it’s mostly cartoons that don’t seem to interest me.

I was fairly solitary. I didn’t like structured learning. People didn’t seem to be my cup of tea.

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

What sets ‘Some Nights’ apart from anything we’ve ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now,...

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

Darkness, no matter how powerful it may seem, can be driven back by the tiniest spark.

I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the ‘Boston Phoenix.’ I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that...

I’ve seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn’t occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me,...

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

There doesn’t seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.’s acquittal.

Some people just don’t seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain’t true, folks.

I confess I’ve got a yearning to go to Los Angeles, but I can’t work out if it is because a lot of British actors seem to go or because there’s this perception that the...

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not...

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a lot of actors because in a weird way, psychology and acting kind of seem interwoven.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

If waterboarding’s OK, why don’t we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims… Have we waterboarded anyone else?

The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.

I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if...

I look younger; I feel younger. I’m in no rush to grow up or seem older to people.

Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.