Seems Quotes

I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important.

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

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

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

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.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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