Seems Quotes · Page 26

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

— Anonymous

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

— Saadi

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

— Dale Carnegie

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

— Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

— Ian Bogost

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

— Joanna Russ

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

— James Salter

I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and…

— Jack Vance

I have the bigger iPad, but the Mini is the best. It just seems perfect. The old one seems so big and…

— Jeff Garlin

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

— Victor Davis Hanson

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region…

— Francis Crick

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

— Jerry Stahl

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the…

— Bruce L. Shelley

Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas.…

— Tariq Ramadan

I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan…

— John Banville

The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion…

— Robert D. McFadden

For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as…

— May Sarton

Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time…

— Liza Minnelli

Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret…

— William J. Clinton

I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so…

— Billie Jean King

My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable…

— Paul Theroux

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the…

— Robert Harris

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides…

— Arthur Koestler

This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises,…

— Shashi Tharoor

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,…

— T. S. Eliot

Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the…

— Watchman Nee

I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a…

— Kenny Smith

It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I think there's a whole book being written about it in the UK. I don't know if you can get it here.…

— Neil Marshall

The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the…

— Edward Said

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

— Sanya Richards-Ross

Success is like toilet paper, it only seems important when you don't have it.

— Richard Jeni

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

— Alex Webb

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

'How was your day?' is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.

— Seth Godin

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings