Seem Quotes

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

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.