Seems Quotes

7056 Seems quotes by 4268 unique authors

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. — Ludovico Ariosto
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy… — Petrarch
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart… — Harry A. Blackmun
God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT! — Napoleon Hill
I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I… — Thelonious Monk
It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how… — Chet Baker
Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going. — Chet Baker
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems… — Mark Helprin
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems… — Roddy Doyle
I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself… — James Wolcott
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take… — Margery Allingham
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble. — Darin Strauss
I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. — Emile M. Cioran
Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event? — Emile M. Cioran
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect. — John Updike
Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are… — Anthony Hecht
It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense… — Kay Ryan
It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores,… — Liz Phair
Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different. — Liz Phair
The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would… — David Byrne
When I hear what we call ‘music,’ it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But… — John Cage
When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet,… — John Steinbeck
It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. — Edith Wharton

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