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We’ve collected the best Seem Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Walter Cronkite, Mattie Stepanek, Alain de Botton, Chris Kamara, Hermann Hesse. Use them as an inspiration.

1
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
2
We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there’s always something beautiful that you can find.
3
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can’t believe in any of it.
4
Whenever I go shopping with my wife, all I ever seem to come home with is a new pair of shoes.
5
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
6
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
John Fowles
7
Artists – musicians, painters, writers, poets – always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
8
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
9
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
10
We seem to have some quite good ‘FIFA 17′ players at Chelsea.
11
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
Katherine Anne Porter
12
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei
13
We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward.
14
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
15
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
16
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don’t seem to suit the person at all.
17
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
18
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.
19
Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we’re having a good time.
20
American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I’ve received thousands of thank-you notes. It’s just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.
21
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They’re a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
22
If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
23
What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Margaret Mitchell
24
I believe I can carry the message of conservatism in a way that doesn’t seem so abrasive – that has better packaging, I would say, better messaging.
25
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
26
Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
27
It doesn’t seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
Anthony Hecht
28
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
Augustus Y. Napier
29
I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
30
How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, ‘How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?’
31
I don’t see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
Fred Hoyle
32
Sometimes when we have so much going on, it’s easy to forsake the things that seem like personal luxuries – for example, our morning run. But it isn’t a luxury at all, when it is the thing that allows us and empowers us to face everything else.
33
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
34
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people’s civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it’s fiction or non-fiction.
35
I like the word ‘indolence’. It makes my laziness seem classy.
36
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
37
Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons.
38
Don Rickles and I are best friends. I know that might seem strange to those who know Don only by reputation, but somebody has to be his friend. Just to make sure I don’t forget, Don gave me a doormat that sits just outside the front door of my house. It reads: ‘The Newharts: The Rickleses Best Friends.’
39
Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
40
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
Phaedrus
41
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Dawn Powell
42
When I was 25, if you’d have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, ‘Oh, my God. That’s a huge step down.’
43
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
44
As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.
45
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
46
I’ve owned a lot of dogs in my life – Marcela, Rusty, Petey Pup, Precious, Rosy and Ava. Each were in love with life’s simple pleasures, but being people in dog suits, as they seem to be, they each had a defined personality!
Bob Peterson
47
I don’t like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn’t learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
48
Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
49
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
50
Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
Jeff Gannon
51
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
52
Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing – viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games – especially against women – would be rapidly toned down.
53
So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.
54
Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.
55
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
56
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
57
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Wendy Carlos
58
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
59
There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.
Julian Barbour
60
Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
61
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
Jane Rule
62
The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
Abigail Disney
63
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
64
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti
65
In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies.
John Gresham Machen
66
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what’s happened – almost to calm themselves.
67
No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.
68
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
69
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
70
Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.
71
One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin my poetry workshops with students because at times, poetry can seem like this dead art form for old white men who just seem like they were born to be old, like, you know, Benjamin Button or something.
72
I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I’m not doing that at all.
73
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Carl von Clausewitz
74
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
Channing Pollock
75
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
76
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow ‘Operation Re-elect Bush‘ doesn’t seem to be popular.
77
It’s only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn’t seem to appeal very widely.
78
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.
79
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
80
Quite a few people who are in the media and in control of the big money seem to want to see these Southeast Asian countries – and, in particular, Malaysiastop trying to catch up with their superiors and to know their place.
81
I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in ‘Cinderella‘ and a multitude of them in ‘Cats,’ I’ve wanted the opportunity to actually perform ‘down under.’
82
Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.
83
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Michael Ende
84
I don’t usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.
Tony Bradman
85
I don’t ever want to seem like I’m trying to command attention through the way I dress – but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
86
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer – by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don’t seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
Kenneth Anger
87
I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.
88
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.
89
I’m 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn’t as easy as it used to be.
90
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Frank Moore Colby
91
I can’t even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don’t seem like real people to me: they’re props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don’t find funny. I have to feel like they’re real people.
92
My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it’s as ordinary as anyone else‘s.
93
When you are younger and more radical, the police seem like the enemy.
94
When I’m not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.
95
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
96
The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don’t seem to justify the efforts we make each day.
Robert Adams
97
Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.
98
Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.
99
Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy – how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
100
At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
101
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
102
People seem to think I’m Satan.
Dominic West
103
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
104
A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I’m wearing as opposed to the music.
105
I’ve learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.
106
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
107
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.
Margaret Halsey
108
What we’ve discovered is that Americans seem to love our saucy humor.
Benny Hill
109
Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we’re having a good time.
110
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn’t seem to add up to very much.
111
In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!
Francisco de Quevedo
112
I’m part of the generation that grew up with great rappers like 2Pac and Biggie and people like Amy Winehouse. We’ve seen a lot of different artists come and go. Even people who are still here, they seem consumed and blinded by fame. It may not have taken them out physically, but they have been taken out.
113
In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
114
I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
115
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
116
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
117
They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.
Cleo Moore
118
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there’s some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there’s a lot of work that’s gone into it, so it can’t all be just a lie.
119
And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.
120
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
121
All these other nations seem to appreciate what I’m doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
Sun Ra
122
It’s difficult when people seem to dislike you only because you’ve found success with something.
Scott Cawthon
123
If there’s one thing special about me, it’s that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.
124
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
125
I like to do special things for people. Any time someone has a birthday, I make them a really special cake that they all seem to love – it’s a Coca-Cola cake.
126
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago… I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
127
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
128
I’m a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
129
I always get told by women that they would love a daughter-in-law like me. That’s big, because not too many people seem to want their son to marry an actress!
130
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
131
It’s difficult when people seem to dislike you only because you’ve found success with something.
Scott Cawthon
132
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
133
We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.
134
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don’t seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
135
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
Larry Niven
136
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
137
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
Russell Lynes
138
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances E. Willard
139
If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.
140
The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we’re to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.
141
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
142
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ’s followers seem to disagree.
143
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
144
When I auditioned for ‘Pitch Perfect,’ I didn’t know it was a singing movie. I didn’t read the script. I go to the audition, and I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s a baseball movie.’ But then I’m reading the lines, and I’m like, ‘This doesn’t seem like a baseball movie.’
145
Lifting the veil of secrecy that shrouds police misconduct allegations would seem like an obvious democratic value. After all, if police work for the people, should they not be answerable to the people, as well? This is a basic tenet of good government.
146
Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
147
I’m an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I’m an emotional person.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
148
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
149
I think when you’ve been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn’t seem very powerful.
150
I’ve always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?
151
Indoor pools just don’t seem as inviting to me.
152
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
153
Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
154
Most people don’t even know what a trombone is. It’s not that popular as a front instrument… I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It’s a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.
155
Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who’s very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.
156
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
157
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Pauline Kael
158
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.
159
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
160
Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.
161
I love that I’ve become a mentor, almost like a mother, to all the people out there that love Italian, that love cooking. I seem to make them comfortable.
162
One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that’s a mistake.
Michael Sandel
163
I’m always trying to find ‘connectionsbetween things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
164
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
165
Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that’s the best place to solve all the world‘s problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear.
166
Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they’re spreading like a contagion.
167
But the wicked passions of men’s hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
Algernon Blackwood
168
Before my tenure, people didn’t seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
169
The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.
170
The usual key to getting films made seems to be a producer’s terrier-like determination not to let it go. Unfortunately, such producers often seem prone to sinking their claws into mediocre projects.
171
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
Emma Orczy
172
I wasn’t a big fan of Instagram at first. I felt it was watering down the way music is perceived ’cause it made things seem more normal.
173
It’s difficult to feel as though you are truly being effective at work. Many of us feel trapped in endless meetings, with barely any time to grab lunch, let alone do any work. Overarching strategies and key priorities seem completely divorced from the day-to-day tactics.
174
In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end, the community will come around.
175
It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not.
176
I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
177
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can’t believe in any of it.
178
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
179
I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that’s, of course, wonderful. I’m really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.
180
Chickens scare me. I don’t like them. They seem a little floppy or something.
181
There are a lot of ‘chicken Christians.’ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.
182
Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user‘s health.
Howard Berman
183
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.
184
While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.
185
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don’t do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.
William Wilberforce
186
Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
187
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of ‘spirituality‘ or ‘mysticism‘ to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem – because millions of people have had experiences for which ‘spiritual’ and ‘mystical‘ seem the only terms available.
188
Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.
189
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
William Herschel
190
I feel like ‘Birds in the Trap’ seem united; it’s just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can’t get their creative idea out.
191
A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you’re good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn’t last long and you’re quickly discarded.
192
We Americans are a primitive people… Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.
193
We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we’re constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.
194
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
195
You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
Jean Kerr
196
If we’re talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show… More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they’re having way too much fun at their ‘jobs.’
Aaron Sanchez
197
During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
198
Very few of us are what we seem.
199
I think we’re seeing privacy diminish, not by laws… but by young people who don’t seem to value their privacy.
200
Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don’t. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
Arthur Levitt
201
It’s been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, ‘Oh she just popped up on the scene,’ but I’ve been working on this for some time.
202
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
203
Careers don’t seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.
Kim Wilde
204
We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
205
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
Major Taylor
206
A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.
207
It’s unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.
208
When you’re young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
Pearl Bailey
209
I love that I’ve become a mentor, almost like a mother, to all the people out there that love Italian, that love cooking. I seem to make them comfortable.
210
For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a knighthood, even possibly the Garter.
211
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
212
I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it’s on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.
213
My job, and that’s my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.
Bryce Courtenay
214
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
215
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy‘s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Lance Morrow
216
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
217
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
F. L. Lucas
218
I always get told by women that they would love a daughter-in-law like me. That’s big, because not too many people seem to want their son to marry an actress!
219
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
220
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion – painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.
221
I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
222
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they’re made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
223
Sometimes, when life moves along, you’re presented with situations where you find it necessary to speak because so many people either seem to be afraid to or, more sinister, are unwilling to face things and let things go and worry about their own situations.
Gregg Popovich
224
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord‘s vengeance, I myself don’t like it.
Robert Gould Shaw
225
Whenever I go shopping with my wife, all I ever seem to come home with is a new pair of shoes.
226
There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.
227
We’ve been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We’re just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.
228
It’s going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
229
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
230
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
231
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
232
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Cornelia Funke
233
One thing that does seem to particularly annoy people is my voice and my very slight, to me unnoticeable, speech impediment.
234
Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong.
235
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
236
I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.
Deidre Hall
237
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer’s standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
Whitley Strieber
238
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
239
I don’t especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I’ve never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.
240
It may seem premature, but you need to be thinking of your exit from the moment you accept capital, because at that moment, you’ve made an explicit agreement with an investor that he or she will eventually be able to gain liquidity.
241
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.
242
In a weird way, if you look at all the ‘Apes’ movies, they all seem like different stories in the same universe. ‘Beneath the Planet of the Apes’ is definitely a continuation, but the other ones jump all around chronologically.
243
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
244
While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne’er-do-wells, especially on my mother’s side.
245
We just couldn’t seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows… So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that’s why they’re such a big deal for us.
246
I have a slight contrarian impulse I can’t seem to shake.
247
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
248
‘Penthouse’ didn’t seem to concentrate as much on the girls’ faces, and I really wanted to see the girls’ faces. It seems like through the 1980’s, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls’ faces.
249
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
250
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
251
I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don’t know.
252
I’m no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don’t really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
253
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
254
The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.
William L. Jenkins
255
When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him… But I can’t go up and speak to him, because I don’t want to seem like a goob.
256
Forties are good! I’m thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It’s a wonderful decade where you’re in control of yourself but the women are still interested.
James Marsters
257
No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
258
What was incredible about the Maldives was that the entire island we were on consisted of sand. There didn’t seem to be any dirt. You could walk around for hours barefoot with your white trousers skimming the ground, and they’d still be pristine white.
259
I had some friends that went to this hypnotist to stop smoking, and I kind of love things that seem magical. And I liked that it was in Santa Monica, and I had to go near the ocean to get my brain washed out or whatever. So I went there. And I went on a Thursday, and I got hypnotized.
260
I’m really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I’m enjoying what I’m doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it’s great, you know.
261
Drones, with their agility and small size, seem perfect for search and rescue operations.
262
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
263
The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.
264
I’m a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren’t as bad as they seem.
265
Music videos may seem old hat now, but let me tell you, in the summer of 1981, MTV was indubitably the coolest thing ever invented. And the people who were in the videos… coolest people ever. No question.
Julia Quinn
266
I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
Patrice O’Neal
267
You have to treat people gently because we’re all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don’t know that until you get there.
268
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don’t consider it a career at all.
269
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
270
Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there’s no way anybody can be that wholesome.
Max Cannon
271
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
272
I’ve always been fascinated by dreams – they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain’s obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure.
273
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
274
How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often.
275
Well, you know, the best compliment I’ve ever gotten from a coworker is Anna Drezen, who is a longtime friend of mine from college, which she was like – one day she turned to me and she said, you know, Bowen, you make video games seem accessible or you make it seem – you make them seem less esoteric or whatever she said.
276
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
F. L. Lucas
277
The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.
Doris Duke
278
I don’t know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn’t seem to be any rock ‘n’ roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It’s even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
279
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
280
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
281
It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
282
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.
283
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
Livy
284
And there isn’t any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn’t seem to be any moral place for flesh.
Margaret Drabble
285
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
286
We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts. If you want to know why we unerringly seem to get China wrong… this is the reason.
287
Comebacks don’t seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God’s power to reverse the irreversible in your life.
288
Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I’m as bald as a billiard ball!
289
People don’t seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it’s there to protect individual liberty – it’s there to protect us from the concentration of power.
290
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn’t seem to matter.
291
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
292
Then I despair… I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
Andre Malraux
293
The theme of old age doesn’t seem to fascinate Hollywood.
294
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It’s like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
295
I’ve never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.
296
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
297
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton
298
The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.
299
I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I’ve been to Africa a bunch of times and it’s just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.
300
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
301
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
302
As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.
303
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
304
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
305
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Georges Bernanos
306
People don’t seem to be safe inside Pentonville, and now it transpires inmates can escape. That is the final straw. If they don’t have control of the place, what is the point of it being there? This was built in 1842 and is totally inappropriate for modern needs.
307
I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
Kenneth More
308
If you’re on the top for 10 years it’s going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don’t win as much in your ninth or 10th year it’s going seem like you are on your way out.
309
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
310
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
311
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don’t seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
312
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
313
Middle English is an exciting field – almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces – as far as language goes, at any rate.
314
These tapes have been found, which were taken from the desk and various bootlegs. At the time we never got to hear them, they didn’t seem to be available or they just got put to one side.
Michael Giles
315
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
316
I don’t think I’m very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.
Catherine Keener
317
There doesn’t seem to be a religion in ‘Game of Thrones’ that’s totally peaceful… we haven‘t seen any Buddhists.
318
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
319
We spend millions on fitness each year, yet we seem to get fatter.
320
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
321
To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.
Akira Suzuki
322
The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you’re trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn’t seem to fit well.
323
People always like to make me seem taller than I am.
324
We seem to be made to suffer. It’s our lot in life.
Anthony Daniels
325
They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.
Denis Kearney
326
Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
Aberjhani
327
My friends have named me the person they least want to do extreme adventures with, because I always seem to be very close to being part of a disaster. If a cat has nine lives, I think I’ve used a few.
328
The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.
329
I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my inner ear, and the fear loitered. Yet I have found that golf is like a yoga procedure for me: it’s had wonderful, sedative, remedial qualities for my day-to-day life.
330
I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I’d have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I’m really sexy.
331
For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we’ve found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky… And that’s how we stay entertained, and that’s how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.
332
I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my inner ear, and the fear loitered. Yet I have found that golf is like a yoga procedure for me: it’s had wonderful, sedative, remedial qualities for my day-to-day life.
333
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
334
This millennial generation… you guys seem so entitled.
335
In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It’s when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it’s almost incomprehensible.
336
But which is the State’s essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
337
You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right. And you still have people trying to tear him down. They make up all sorts of lies, with the goal of making him seem illegitimate.
338
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
339
Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.
340
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don’t seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn’t have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
341
Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.
342
Look! Don’t be deceived by appearances – men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
William Booth
343
I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
344
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
345
The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
346
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
Barbara McClintock
347
I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.
Roselyn Sanchez
348
Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.
349
I’m a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life – people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a ‘reality.’
350
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
Primo Levi
351
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
352
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don’t talk about it too much in the press is because it isn’t funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn’t seem right.
353
Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.
354
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
355
I’ve found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like ‘real people.’
356
Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they’re the only ones who can save themselves.
James Welch
357
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
358
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer‘s journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It’s not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.
359
Republicans seem to be gambling that most Americans won’t care about a few rich private equity managers if their own taxes go down, their stock portfolio goes up, and economic growth accelerates.
360
I have one major problem with the internet: It’s full of liars. There doesn’t seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.
361
Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart.
362
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
Adam Hochschild
363
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Wilfred Burchett
364
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
365
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
366
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.
Ezra Stiles
367
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
368
For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don’t know what it is.
369
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
370
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don’t know where that came from. Because I don’t have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.
371
The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has heard the song or the composition before.
372
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
373
Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn’t seem like they’re actually listening to it.
Victoria Legrand
374
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
375
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
376
I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.
Lee Marvin
377
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
Gene Fowler
378
I’ve had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don’t know many other authors who can.
379
You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right. And you still have people trying to tear him down. They make up all sorts of lies, with the goal of making him seem illegitimate.
380
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry – it’s some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Jack Prelutsky
381
I think it’s great now that we seem to be in an era where it’s OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.
382
Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.
383
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming – a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
384
To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.
385
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don’t seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
386
The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I’m in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can’t seem to come up with anything new that’s funny. That’s a tough place to be as a comedian.
387
Forties are good! I’m thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It’s a wonderful decade where you’re in control of yourself but the women are still interested.
James Marsters
388
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks… of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
389
While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.
390
Europeans don’t seem to have the groupie mentality.
391
Most of the women I saw on TV didn’t seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
392
When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don’t want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies – Monsanto is the most famous of them – control so many of the seeds we grow.
393
It doesn’t seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work – what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
394
Symptoms that may seem psychiatric or psychological can actually be signs of a medical condition.
395
All those teams I was on that were successful were the ones that everyone had love for each other and had fun. Things that seem minuscule – joking around, laughing, conversing, all those things that seem childish – that is what builds camaraderie.
396
I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.
397
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
398
Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for everything, but I don’t wanna make it seem like I wouldn’t be able to survive without fame. ‘Cause I did it for 13 years.
399
When I make eye contact with our fans while playing a gig, I seem to have the most energy.
400
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
401
I may seem a tough guy, but I’m also very sentimental.
402
I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven’t tried to uncomplicate myself. I’ve sort of let things seem contradictory, and sometimes it really confuses people. I don’t know if it’s working all the time, but I’d rather do that than try to sell myself as one thing or another.
403
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression – thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.
404
I’m less genial than people think, but I’m too timid to seem nasty.
405
The subject matter of the stories on the surface… there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
406
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
407
There are a lot of ‘chicken Christians.’ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.
408
We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
409
One of my best friends was gay and Mormon, and I saw how conflicted he was. It was the first time my faith didn’t align with my mind and heart and the first time I was being taught something at church that I was like, ‘Hey, this doesn’t seem right.’
410
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
Mark Strand
411
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
412
When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn’t seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space.
Donald Bren
413
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can’t seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it’s my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
414
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
415
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
Jandy Nelson
416
My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.
417
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
418
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
419
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
420
It feels like we have two threads running through our lives: one pulling us into the world to achieve, the other pulling us back to replenish us. These threads can seem at odds, but really, they enforce each other. It’s not a trade-off between success and sleep.
421
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
422
In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I’m traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.
423
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
424
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
425
Things are not quite what they seem always. Don’t start me on class, otherwise you’ll get a four-hour lecture.
426
Everyone’s more vulnerable than they seem, and I think men are more vulnerable. Once you get close to a man, the whole thing’s a facade anyway. I think manhood is fragile.
427
There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don’t seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.
428
Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.
429
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don’t say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.
430
Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience’s hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.
431
It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
432
Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
T. Harv Eker
433
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
434
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
John Robert Seeley
435
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
436
Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.
437
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
438
First of all, I don’t dislike direct storytelling – people seem to think that about my games! Actually, the truth is, I’m just not good at implementing direct narrative in my games.
439
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
440
Always think twice before you decide to do anything for a film. It may seem like a career-changing idea, but think of your family and your future before doing anything risky. Train properly, because looking strong and being strong are two different things.
441
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
442
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
443
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
444
I like to do special things for people. Any time someone has a birthday, I make them a really special cake that they all seem to love – it’s a Coca-Cola cake.
445
Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it’s a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.
446
I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren’t superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it’s like, ‘Oh, gosh, I’ve gotta be in at this time,’ they know what they’re doing. I have great parents.
Cody Linley
447
All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.
448
I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
449
We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts. If you want to know why we unerringly seem to get China wrong… this is the reason.
450
Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck.
451
Many guys seem to think that his thoughts and feelings are always right and always the best option. I think I am the same kind of guy.
Lee Seung-gi
452
States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.
453
As far as I’m concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world… which doesn’t seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.
454
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
Olin Miller
455
I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.
456
My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.
457
I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?
458
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
459
I have arm-wrestled here and there… guys seem to want to test my strength.
460
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
461
In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.
462
A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.
463
I’m 10-12 years into life as an out gay man, and I’m a different person. I think there are things about my journey that might be useful to other people, and coming up with a hit record on its own doesn’t seem to be enough anymore.
464
Kids now, they’re not willing to pay for music and movies. The only thing they seem to be willing to pay for is concert tickets.
465
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.
466
What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.
467
I was very much inspired by the things that I’d seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. ‘It’s Classified‘ and my previous book ‘Eighteen Acres’ are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it’s by design.
468
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
469
The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
John Cage
470
They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn’t anything else drown it out at the time?
471
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
472
Perhaps one day the world will end, giving the last group to predict it the satisfaction of being right – but as many have been wrong so far, it does not seem wise to make public policy on the back of these fears.
473
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
474
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
475
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
476
Maybe the biggest thing that I’ve learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don’t seem like they can.
477
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better.
478
I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques – precious things that seem to be from another time – and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
479
I can’t seem to write young enough anymore.
Cynthia Weil
480
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
481
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it’s getting.
Terry McMillan
482
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
483
The answer is that if God exists, he doesn’t seem to mind if you believe in him or not.
484
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
485
White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio.
486
The word ‘Islammeans ‘peace.’ The word ‘Muslim‘ means ‘one who surrenders to God.’ But the press makes us seem like haters.
487
When you see Zlatan up close, he’s even more imposing than on the television. Zlatan is very, very big, very strong, and his control of the ball is incredible. It can seem like he’s not there, and then he goes and scores the decisive goal.
488
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
489
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
490
I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can’t seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.
491
My youngest son’s pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, ‘I’ve never seen my dad do work.’ It’s true. Skateboarding doesn’t seem like real work, but I’m proud of what I do.
492
What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.
493
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
494
It doesn’t seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don’t like facts, they ignore them.
495
Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there’s always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
496
People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.
497
Canada has treated abortion as just another medical procedure since 1988, when the Supreme Court struck down the old criminal law. Most Canadians seem to think that’s fine.
498
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work – they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.
Frederick Law Olmsted
499
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
500
I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
501
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
502
I would love to just continue playing characters that break the mold. I like making interesting decisions when playing characters, so, taking something that would seem one way and then playing it a different way.
503
A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
504
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
Amelia Barr
505
Both parties are so entrenched in their ideologies and a desire to score political points and hold on to power that we never seem to agree on a problem, much less find solutions.
506
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
507
I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, ‘Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.’
508
I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don’t feel like that.
509
The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don’t seem to be any takers on that one!
Beau Bridges
510
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
511
I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.
Roselyn Sanchez
512
New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.
513
The fifties – they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
Elizabeth Hardwick
514
The bull market, rising prices, earning lots of money, make it seem as if the good days will never end. When prices are falling and there is a recession, that also feels as though it will last for ever. Politics is the same. People simply can’t imagine changing circumstances.
515
Almost nothing works the first time it’s attempted. Just because what you’re doing does not seem to be working, doesn’t mean it won’t work. It just means that it might not work the way you’re doing it.
Bob Parsons
516
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
517
Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we believe, rightly or wrongly, to be objective reality.
518
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced.
519
The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles and to encounter other perspectives.
520
No company is hiring anyone to search for messages from aliens. Most people don’t seem to think there’s much benefit to it. The lack of interest is, I think, because most people don’t realize what even a simple detection would really mean.
Frank Drake
521
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
522
Most professional women I know – myself included – long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.
523
In barely one generation, we’ve moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them – often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
524
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
525
It’s both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
Tony Hancock
526
What was incredible about the Maldives was that the entire island we were on consisted of sand. There didn’t seem to be any dirt. You could walk around for hours barefoot with your white trousers skimming the ground, and they’d still be pristine white.
527
Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions – what’s the meaning of life, what are we doing here – then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, ‘I’ll just get married. I’ll just have kids. I’ll get back to that later.’ But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.
528
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
529
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn’t go so well.
530
Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.
531
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
532
I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.
Jaquelin T. Robertson
533
When people talk of the economy being strong, they don’t seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
534
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
Emily Carr
535
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‘convulsions of nature,’ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love.
536
I’m very comfortable with uncomfortable situations, and I think that can seem odd to people, that I like the thrill of discomfort.
537
The Americans may think they have ‘liberatedBaghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves – they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty – seem to have a different idea what liberation means.
538
It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t seem like it.
539
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
540
I’m not up on today’s television for children, because it’s mostly cartoons that don’t seem to interest me.
William Jackson
541
I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.
Mario Botta
542
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
543
For instance, it’s a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.
544
Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don’t seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.
545
My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won’t necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.
546
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
547
We are at war – undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed – but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.
548
I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting seem like a really risky proposition.
549
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
Jeff Goldblum
550
I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.
Tom Kenny
551
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
552
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
553
U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
554
My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won’t necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.
555
The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They’re superficial and I like articulate comedy.
556
When I’m done playing, when I seem like I’m retiring, I don’t love the game anymore.
557
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.
558
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
559
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
560
I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.
561
I think it’s a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn’t seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that’s ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.
562
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that’s out there in the world, that I can’t seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
Eric Bogosian
563
We are at war – undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed – but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.
564
Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.
Todd Akin
565
A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he’s usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don’t know what to think of it.
566
I would be remiss if I didn’t say that it has been troubling for me to work within an institution that does not seem to recognize that I am a statistic.
567
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
568
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
Terence
569
It’s Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it’s human to do them.
570
I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.
571
Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it’s just genes, isn’t it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don’t actually seem to get anywhere.
572
There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It’s like a rush, I really enjoy that.
573
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.
Levi Strauss
574
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants – more than anything else – to become rich. As long as they don’t have the money, it’ll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they’ll understand how important other things are – and have always been.
Benjamin Jowett
575
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Chauncey Depew
576
In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
577
Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business… challenges that only seem to be growing for today’s entrepreneurs.
578
Looking out at the ocean, it’s easy to feel small – and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth’s seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
579
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
580
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
581
Commercial speech is like obscenity… we can’t seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Jef I. Richards
582
In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it’s traditionally the least Spanish city, but you’d never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist – as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors.
583
In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
Kenneth More
584
I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven’t heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.
585
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway
586
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.
587
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
588
It does seem fair to give them the option of a better return.
589
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
590
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it’s really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it’s really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
591
If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.
George Berkeley
592
No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.
Arthur Kornberg
593
As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
594
There’s almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
Peter Weir
595
Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken – they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
William Watson
596
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
597
I actually feel I’m in a much better place than I’ve ever been because I’m thankful people still love the songs that I’ve written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don’t look terrible.
598
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
599
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.