Best They Seemed Quotes
83 They Seemed quotes by 78 unique authors
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I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
— Anthony Jeselnik
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My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid…
— Jane Pauley
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She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at…
— John Irving
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic…
— Oscar Wilde
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It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative;…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around,…
— Charles Bukowski
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Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a…
— China Mieville
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The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths,…
— E. M. Forster
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So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us…
— Azar Nafisi
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Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the…
— Christopher Moore
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They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into…
— Toni Morrison
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My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he…
— Christopher Pike
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Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called…
— Craig Ferguson
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the whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never…
— Ellen Wittlinger
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Remember, this thing is small. It's not like the wolfships. It'll ride over the waves, not crash through them. So we're safe as houses." He…
— John Flanagan
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Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere.…
— Jerry Spinelli
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I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and…
— Sylvia Plath
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They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.
— Galileo Galilei
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No mistakes, I'd promised myself that i would make no mistakes, no matter how minimal they seemed. if i held her hand, i would only…
— Stephenie Meyer
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They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
— Yasunari Kawabata
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