Seems Quotes

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

I only read on my phone and the whole "let's see if we can get people to do it" idea seems less "wouldn't it be cool if we could get people to do it" and more "what else would people do."

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

If Trump remains honest and seems like a person who's authentic, he's going to go a long way.

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts.

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.

Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]

My weight is something that people seem to talk about a lot.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions about matters of concern to them, to the largest possible extent.

It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively."

I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments.

While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.

The empty tomb stands, a veritable rock, as an essential element in the evidence for the resurrection. To suggest that it was not in fact empty at all, as some have done, seems to me ridiculous.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

You have to make people understand that things cost something. Otherwise it seems like they have no value. I can't just be giving away rabbits. No. It costs five bucks, so make it work for you.

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

If I talk about what I'm good at, I seem like I'm a conceited egomaniac.

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.

I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.