Quotes about Seemed

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. Votes: 4

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better. Votes: 2

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. Votes: 2

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. Votes: 2

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. Votes: 2

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. Votes: 2

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them. Votes: 2

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Votes: 2

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else. Votes: 2

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. Votes: 2

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that. Votes: 2

When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall. Votes: 2

I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that. Votes: 2

I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history. Votes: 2

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. Votes: 2

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes. Votes: 2

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. Votes: 2

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. Votes: 2

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. Votes: 2

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. Votes: 2

Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.' Votes: 2

When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'. Votes: 2

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line. Votes: 2

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena. Votes: 2

The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood. Votes: 2

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. Votes: 2

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time. Votes: 0

The whole trial seemed surreal. Votes: 0

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic. Votes: 0

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option. Votes: 0

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness. Votes: 0

It seemed better to delay thinking. Votes: 0

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness Votes: 0

There seemed nothing to do but live. Votes: 0

There seemed a gulf impassable between them. Votes: 0

Grief, it seemed, was a physical place. Votes: 0

What had seemed like love was betrayal Votes: 0

…nothing seemed impossible in the beginning… Votes: 0

It seemed a good idea at the time. Votes: 0

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me Votes: 0

History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered. Votes: 0

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable. Votes: 0

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste. Votes: 0

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. Votes: 0

How seamless seemed love and then came trouble! Votes: 0

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby. Votes: 0

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement. Votes: 0

Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better. Votes: 0

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read. Votes: 0

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together. Votes: 0

My fighting spirit has often seemed out of place. Votes: 0

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement. Votes: 0

There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree. Votes: 0

Working for the Man seemed really good to me. Votes: 0

I always seemed to fall in love with policemen. Votes: 0

Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural. Votes: 0

But Snape always seemed to hate me so much. Votes: 0

No age seemed the age of romance to itself. Votes: 0

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No. Votes: 0

It seemed too good to be true. That's grace. Votes: 0

All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all. Votes: 0

Hello?" I said, because Charley's House of Pasties seemed wrong. Votes: 0

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me. Votes: 0

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business. Votes: 0

It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things. Votes: 0

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible. Votes: 0

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander. Votes: 0

...an age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not... Votes: 0

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little. Votes: 0

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. Votes: 0

Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. Votes: 0

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple. Votes: 0

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe. Votes: 0

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. Votes: 0

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing. Votes: 0

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte. Votes: 0

Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times. Votes: 0

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges. Votes: 0

But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed" Votes: 0

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me. Votes: 0

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me. Votes: 0

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year. Votes: 0

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand. Votes: 0

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual. Votes: 0

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me. Votes: 0

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race. Votes: 0

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality. Votes: 0

Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica) Votes: 0

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness Votes: 0

Nothing worked. This blazing pain seemed only to be getting worse. Votes: 0

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places. Votes: 0

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely. Votes: 0

My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur. Votes: 0

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense. Votes: 0

When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me. Votes: 0

Depict a leader who seemed overwhelmed and rarely made key decisions. Votes: 0

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments. Votes: 0

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal. Votes: 0

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes. Votes: 0

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that. Votes: 0

... we seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ..." Votes: 0

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful. Votes: 0

There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed. Votes: 0

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people. Votes: 0

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea. Votes: 0

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses. Votes: 0

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd. Votes: 0

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in. Votes: 0

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. Votes: 0

Da Vinci always seemed like the prototype Tony Stark to me. Votes: 0

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks. Votes: 0

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew? Votes: 0

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine. Votes: 0

New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable. Votes: 0

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up. Votes: 0

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. Votes: 0

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me. Votes: 0

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself. Votes: 0

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off. Votes: 0

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence. Votes: 0

Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface. Votes: 0

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite Votes: 0

Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening. Votes: 0

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware. Votes: 0

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. Votes: 0

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. Votes: 0

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music. Votes: 0

Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right. Votes: 0

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more. Votes: 0

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little. Votes: 0

For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. Votes: 0

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us. Votes: 0

It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to. Votes: 0

It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes. Votes: 0

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen. Votes: 0

Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful! Votes: 0

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta. Votes: 0

It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age. Votes: 0

Laughing has always seemed to me to be more Jewish than praying. Votes: 0

It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very. Votes: 0

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow… Votes: 0

It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it too. Votes: 0

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again. Votes: 0

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political. Votes: 0

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own. Votes: 0

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them. Votes: 0

You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. Votes: 0

He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather. Votes: 0

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. Votes: 0

She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years. Votes: 0

paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer Votes: 0

In my hometown, the sky seemed endless . . . but there was nothing to see. Votes: 0

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all. Votes: 0

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. Votes: 0

Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end. Votes: 0

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance. Votes: 0

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. Votes: 0

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude... Votes: 0

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all. Votes: 0

This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating. Votes: 0

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable. Votes: 0

Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation. Votes: 0

When I wrote the script [of "Aquarius"], it seemed to hold people's interest. Votes: 0

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is. Votes: 0

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk. Votes: 0

People who were really good at playing or singing seemed boring to me. Votes: 0

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. Votes: 0

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. Votes: 0

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. Votes: 0

that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery Votes: 0

The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget. Votes: 0

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive. Votes: 0

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark Votes: 0

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match. Votes: 0

I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time. Votes: 0

Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful. Votes: 0

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. Votes: 0

I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get. Votes: 0

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'. Votes: 0

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered. Votes: 0

Britney painted her finger nails and it really seemed like they had a blast. Votes: 0

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see. Votes: 0

In my mind's eye, it seemed like the way it was supposed to happen. Votes: 0

He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly. Votes: 0

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right. Votes: 0

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. Votes: 0

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. Votes: 0

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped. Votes: 0

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor. Votes: 0

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed. Votes: 0

It seemed Abe Vigoda's career was done until he was pronounced dead in print. Votes: 0

With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight. Votes: 0

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes. Votes: 0

I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure. Votes: 0

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. Votes: 0

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all. Votes: 0

Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent. Votes: 0

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere. Votes: 0

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith. Votes: 0

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world. Votes: 0

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented. Votes: 0

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. Votes: 0

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older. Votes: 0

He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds. Votes: 0

The Kiss. It seemed like more than a kiss. It felt more like alchemy. Votes: 0

Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it. Votes: 0

I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile. Votes: 0

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous. Votes: 0

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for. Votes: 0

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact. Votes: 0

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat. Votes: 0

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001. Votes: 0

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam. Votes: 0

The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love. Votes: 0

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically. Votes: 0

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally. Votes: 0

Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else. Votes: 0

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence. Votes: 0

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go. Votes: 0

Today I decided to sing in my underwear! No one seemed to mind! #loveyoufromtheinsideout. #artforfreedom Votes: 0

Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies Votes: 0

He [Barack Obama] just seemed very firm about the change, and that's, like, his motto. Votes: 0

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable. Votes: 0

The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting. Votes: 0

How it seemed like you could see everything, but certain things were blocked out, hidden. Votes: 0

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. Votes: 0

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts. Votes: 0

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her. Votes: 0

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer... Votes: 0

All girls who seemed to have everything going for them. And decided they had nothing. Votes: 0

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself. Votes: 0

I wanted to come close to fierce wild things. They seemed prehistoric, rare and sacred. Votes: 0

Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. Votes: 0

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me. Votes: 0

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Votes: 0

It never happenedbut it seemed likethere were times when rotstoppedwaited like a streetcarat a signal. Votes: 0

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond. Votes: 0

Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath. Votes: 0

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title. Votes: 0

So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another. Votes: 0

And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. Votes: 0

The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost. Votes: 0

The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time. Votes: 0

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me. Votes: 0

The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more. Votes: 0

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came. Votes: 0

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title Votes: 0

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. Votes: 0

She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky. Votes: 0

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer. Votes: 0

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another. Votes: 0

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. Votes: 0

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should. Votes: 0

Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals. Votes: 0

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number. Votes: 0

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous. Votes: 0

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music. Votes: 0

To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day. Votes: 0

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room Votes: 0

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me. Votes: 0

There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it. Votes: 0

Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying. Votes: 0

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. Votes: 0

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that. Votes: 0

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows. Votes: 0

I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me. Votes: 0

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else. Votes: 0

It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us. Votes: 0

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. Votes: 0

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. Votes: 0

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners. Votes: 0

I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. Votes: 0

ImpatientlyWhat is it?" Emma seemed to remember how to speak again, but her wide eyes continued" Votes: 0

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone. Votes: 0

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one. Votes: 0

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off Votes: 0

I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board. Votes: 0

A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you. Votes: 0

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat. Votes: 0

I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut. Votes: 0

I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate. Votes: 0

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing. Votes: 0

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end. Votes: 0

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. Votes: 0

It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream. Votes: 0

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements. Votes: 0

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge. Votes: 0

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. Votes: 0

Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it. Votes: 0

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is. Votes: 0

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me. Votes: 0

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. Votes: 0

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction. Votes: 0

Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer. Votes: 0

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality. Votes: 0

I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating. Votes: 0

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me. Votes: 0

In his own country, [Osho] suddenly seemed safe from the international, political attempts to harass him. Votes: 0

Then came Act II, you seemed to change and acted strange, and why I'll never know. Votes: 0

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious. Votes: 0

It seemed like an original act, the very kindest act of being human, that he listened. Votes: 0

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others. Votes: 0

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself Votes: 0

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20. Votes: 0

Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream. Votes: 0

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was, Votes: 0

it seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it. Votes: 0

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory. Votes: 0

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one. Votes: 0

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place. Votes: 0

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of. Votes: 0

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. Votes: 0

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years. Votes: 0

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty. Votes: 0

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out! Votes: 0

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up? Votes: 0

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer's life seemed the most inclusive. Votes: 0

And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh. Votes: 0

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. Votes: 0

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Votes: 0

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it. Votes: 0

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? Votes: 0

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. Votes: 0

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. Votes: 0

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me. Votes: 0

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation. Votes: 0

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me. Votes: 0

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her. Votes: 0

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music Votes: 0

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play. Votes: 0

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal. Votes: 0

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead. Votes: 0

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths. Votes: 0

I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all. Votes: 0

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker Votes: 0

I used to be a cheerleader, but fighting just seemed more, "me". So I went that route. Votes: 0

He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. Votes: 0

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time. Votes: 0

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half. Votes: 0

The music was so mournful and emotional that it seemed like the only suitable thing to play. Votes: 0

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child. Votes: 0

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice. Votes: 0

Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was. Votes: 0

Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back. Votes: 0

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen. Votes: 0

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish. Votes: 0

They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them. Votes: 0

As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme Votes: 0

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years. Votes: 0

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being. Votes: 0

It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself. Votes: 0

Rubbing a clit to competin and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles. Votes: 0

With no one to fear him, it seemed at times as if he didn't exist at all. Votes: 0

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. Votes: 0

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. Votes: 0

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. Votes: 0

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull. Votes: 0

the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light Votes: 0

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do. Votes: 0

Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest. Votes: 0

The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther. Votes: 0

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. Votes: 0

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us. Votes: 0

It seemed each band member was in his own world. Yet, each was in tune with the other. Votes: 0

The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier Votes: 0

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires. Votes: 0

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack. Votes: 0

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women. Votes: 0

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny. Votes: 0

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder. Votes: 0

The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here. Votes: 0

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well. Votes: 0

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie. Votes: 0

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods Votes: 0

Tacos." "Tacos?" I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. "Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese." "I know what a taco is! Votes: 0

... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny. Votes: 0

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way. Votes: 0

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see. Votes: 0

What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life. Votes: 0

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it. Votes: 0

Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem. Votes: 0

This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility. Votes: 0

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. Votes: 0

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat. Votes: 0

It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. Votes: 0

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence. Votes: 0

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived. Votes: 0

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed. Votes: 0

There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. Votes: 0

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy. Votes: 0

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ... Votes: 0

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Votes: 0

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. Votes: 0

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave. Votes: 0

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself. Votes: 0

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln. Votes: 0

It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to. Votes: 0

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things. Votes: 0

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings. Votes: 0

Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest. Votes: 0

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic. Votes: 0

Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea. Votes: 0

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible? Votes: 0

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny) Votes: 0

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. Votes: 0

Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style. Votes: 0

He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation. Votes: 0

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. Votes: 0

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me. Votes: 0

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity. Votes: 0

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know. Votes: 0

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! Votes: 0

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better. Votes: 0

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off. Votes: 0

Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings. Votes: 0

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival Votes: 0

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death. Votes: 0

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. Votes: 0

Dimitri seemed like the kind of guy you could throw into the wilderness and he would survive off anything. Votes: 0

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. Votes: 0

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. Votes: 0

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile, Votes: 0

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long. Votes: 0

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting. Votes: 0

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life. Votes: 0

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong. Votes: 0

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat. Votes: 0

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule. Votes: 0

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. Votes: 0

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others. Votes: 0

It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start. Votes: 0

And all the countries seemed the same, That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here. Votes: 0

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out. Votes: 0

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects. Votes: 0

Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film. Votes: 0

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started. Votes: 0

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow. Votes: 0

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it. Votes: 0

So then you're free?' ‘Yes, I'm free,' said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom. Votes: 0

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst. Votes: 0

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. Votes: 0

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things. Votes: 0

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world. Votes: 0

You could have told me earlier." "You seemed so serious about the game. I didn't want to bother you. Votes: 0

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location. Votes: 0

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy. Votes: 0

It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them Votes: 0

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next. Votes: 0

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out. Votes: 0

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men. Votes: 0

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else. Votes: 0

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life. Votes: 0

I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden. Votes: 0

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear. Votes: 0

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear Votes: 0

It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea. Votes: 0

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit. Votes: 0

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading. Votes: 0

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired. Votes: 0

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be. Votes: 0

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural. Votes: 0

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number. Votes: 0

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about. Votes: 0

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter. Votes: 0

He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. Votes: 0

One minute it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle, the next - no one wanted me. Votes: 0

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move. Votes: 0

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts. Votes: 0

One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me. Votes: 0

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. Votes: 0

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe. Votes: 0

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird. Votes: 0

My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start. Votes: 0

My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream. Votes: 0

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live. Votes: 0

When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald. Votes: 0

Mat, on the other hand, seemed to have unlimited faith in me. Maybe he'd lend me some if I asked nicely. Votes: 0

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone. Votes: 0

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was. Votes: 0

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. Votes: 0

My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear. Votes: 0

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing. Votes: 0

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. Votes: 0

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. Votes: 0

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. Votes: 0

It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen. Votes: 0

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked. Votes: 0

I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it. Votes: 0

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon. Votes: 0

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again. Votes: 0

It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in. Votes: 0

Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air. Votes: 0

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang. Votes: 0

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election. Votes: 0

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person. Votes: 0

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing Votes: 0

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s. Votes: 0

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done. Votes: 0

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. Votes: 0