One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.
The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
Randal Graves: Melodrama coming from you seems about as natural as an oral bowel movement.
Virginia Woolf: Say something, Nessa! Didn't you think I seemed better?
Joseph Goebbels: [to Frederick] It seems I've created a monster. A strangely persuasive monster.
Joe Bradley: You should always wear my clothes. Princess Ann: It seems I do.
Rorschach: None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with *ME*!
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up.
It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.
