Seem Quotes

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

People seem to think I'm Satan.

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.

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.

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

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.

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.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

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.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?

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.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.