Seem Quotes

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

When I used to go into bars people would try and fight me. Women would punch me 10 years ago or put cigarettes out on my arm or my face. But it doesn't seem to happen any more. They show us a lot of love.

What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.

I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.