Seems Quotes

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.

So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

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

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

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

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.

I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.