Seems Quotes

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.