Seems Quotes

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.

If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

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

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

The purest white seems stained.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he'll sing it to me.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond