Seems Quotes

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series.

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

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.