Seems Quotes

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

In Hollywood it seems that you're considered gay until proven otherwise.

I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

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

It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.