I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought...

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

The biggest privilege I’ve had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can’t be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the...

I took my waitress uniform. Seemed fitting.

So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but – it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.