My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your… — George Will Copy Share Image
I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of… — Anna Kingsford Copy Share Image
I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you,… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing.… — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we… — Carol F. McConkie Copy Share Image
People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the… — Edward Elgar Copy Share Image
It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on. — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem. — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy. — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset. — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get… — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool) — Steven Gerrard Copy Share Image
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image