Top 100 Seem Quotes
#1. You seem to be in unusually good spirits." "I do?" Tamas said. "I haven't said two words." Prime cleared his throat. "I can sense it about you. It's in the air. Like a first-year student who knows he's going to be every professor's favorite. It's annoying.
Brian McClellan
#2. Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.
Charles Saatchi
#3. There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.
Anais Nin
#4. It makes the ocean seem inconsequential, the moon unimportant, everything else nonexistent.
It fills all the empty spaces inside him, the ones he didn't know were there, and the ones he thought he'd already filled. And the future is laid plain before him. Their future.
Anna Banks
#5. Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.
George Eliot
#6. They seem to be a doomed people. The curse of a people calling themselves Christian, seems to follow them everywhere;
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
#7. I seem to be ready for work, my materials are collected, yet the work doesn't get done! Nothing is done!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#8. All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real ...
Vijay Seshadri
#9. February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
Shirley Jackson
#10. People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.
Neil Gaiman
#11. Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
Aristotle.
#12. It might seem that being a genius is a golden ticket to a life of glamorous soirees with the intellectual elite, champagne flute in hand, arm candy at your side, surrounded by a throng of smiling sycophants. But you might be confusing this scene with the lifestyle of a diplomat
Andre De Guillaume
#13. I don't like most Christmas movies. They're pretty bad, though they seem to make tons of money anyway. Like this movie 'Elf,' I got the script for that, and I turned it down right away. Against my wife's better judgment.
Terry Zwigoff
#14. For me, time does not seem to pass; rather, it surrounds me. Thus I do not feel removed from memories, nor do they lose their intensity. I have keen recollections not because I have a good memory - I simply retrieve them from the ether. When memories have no velocity, they are very much at hand.
Peter Ruperte Lighte
#15. It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.
Clifford D. Simak
#16. If I was really a bitch I'd make your life a living hell. Instead, I'll just stand by and watch you do that yourself. You seem to do a pretty good job at it.
Sophie Monroe
#17. It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a little guy with a lot of rage and that really pointed us in the direction of exploiting that aspect of his character, which people always seem to enjoy.
David Kirschner
#18. Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes
John Naughton
#19. Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.
Maria Shriver
#20. I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.
James Vincent McMorrow
#21. Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.
Jane Porter
#22. When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
Christopher Moore
#23. There seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.
Margaret Wise Brown
#24. With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.
Rafi Fine
#25. Ever notice how those who start a conversation with the phrase, "Needless to say", always seem to have a lot to say?
Mark W. Boyer
#27. Nahuseresh had attributed her reluctance to an entirely understandable female timidity. He didn't seem to understand that the people of Eddis had very little to do all winter beyond develop superior artisan skills and train for war.
Megan Whalen Turner
#28. World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom
Jay Woodman
#29. You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.
Michael Morpurgo
#30. They call them the bad old days, and in a way they were. But at least they taught us the value of money, and it was something yer had to work for. These days, the youngsters seem to get everything they want. And what gets me is, they believe they're entitled to it!
Joan Jonker
#31. The things that others have always seem better than what you have,
Brandon Sanderson
#32. I briefly stole a look from Vanni, who's dark eyes seem to speak volumes in a language I was not familiar. I did t speak Cheating Dirt Bag, nor did I with to learn.
Ginger Voight
#33. I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to ...
Bill Jay
#34. We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.
Hugh Sidey
#35. Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.
Robert Greene
#36. It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#37. Shouldn't a catastrophe like this be met with rain? An overcast sky? It didn't seem right that things were so quiet, so calm, the day so tranquil when so many people had died, lost loved ones or suffered serious injury.
Wildbow
#38. Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
Taylor Cole
#39. I tried not to seem like a kid who'd just been offered a chance to go up to the front of the plane and see the cockpit. Sure, I said. That sounds neat.
Atul Gawande
#40. I don't want to be at a point where I'm trying to steal the spotlight from the team or anyone else or make it seem like it's just about me.
Tyler Beede
#41. It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.
Gustav Mahler
#42. We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.
Liane Moriarty
#43. On which side is truth, - on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives of others and myself?
Leo Tolstoy
#44. When my family isn't alright, I get restless. It just doesn't seem right to me.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#45. Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
Stanislav Grof
#46. The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score ... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.
Michael Owen
#47. I tell them that Im a lesbian but doesnt seem to matter to them - they see in the media is that we havent met the right guy yet, or that weve been raped or abused by our daddies and were just waiting for Mr. Right to come sweep us off our feet, and Im really tired of seeing that.
Jill Bennett
#48. Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants ...
Louisa May Alcott
#49. People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
Barry Ritholtz
#50. Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#51. People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
Jaron Lanier
#52. When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#53. If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.
Bill Gates
#54. We are the people birthed from this land. For the first time I can seem something I've not fully understood before, not until now as these pale creatures from somewhere far away stare down at us in wonder, trying to makes sense of what they see. We are this place. This place is us.
Joseph Boyden
#55. There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog.
Jay Neugeboren
#56. The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
#57. Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.
Eric Hoffer
#58. We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
Kendrick Lamar
#59. Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.
Dwight Longenecker
#60. To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.
Tom Wicker
#61. She did not know how to react, for when your heart has been poisoned and someone picks a dandelion for you - because it is bright and yellow and you seem like you could use something like that - all you can do is contemplate the funny ways of weeds.
Anne Ursu
#62. 'One Day' is definitely heartbreaking in a few ways, but one of the main ways is that my character and Jim Sturgess's character are just people from two different worlds who love each other in so many ways and can't quite seem to get it together.
Anne Hathaway
#64. Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.
Ben Goldacre
#65. Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed.
H.P. Lovecraft
#66. I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.
Freddie Highmore
#67. The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.
William L. Jenkins
#68. Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.
Henry David Thoreau
#69. Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated.
Dinesh D'Souza
#70. Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.'
'Why do you say that?'
'She seems different, that's all.'
'I don't know,' Bud said. 'You might be confusing different with dissatisfied.
Tawni O'Dell
#71. L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.
Hope Solo
#72. May, notwithstanding, be questioned whether, except his bible, he ever read a book entirely through. Late in life, if any man praised a book in his presence, he was sure to ask, "Did you read it through?" If the answer was in the affirmative, he did not seem willing to believe it.
Samuel Johnson
#73. He was nice. And he was hot. And he didn't seem to mind that I was borderline mental.
Lucy Robinson
#74. When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to the audition, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's a baseball movie.' But then I'm reading the lines, and I'm like, 'This doesn't seem like a baseball movie.'
Adam DeVine
#75. With pantheism ... the deity is associated with the order of nature or the universe itself ... when modern scientists such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking mention 'God' in their writing, this is what they seem to mean: that God is Nature.
Victor J. Stenger
#76. All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
Markus Zusak
#77. In this world, there are only 'things that seem like the truth' and 'things that seem like rumors - A-ya
Suzumu
#79. I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.
Osamu Dazai
#80. For some reason, the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.
Robert Osborne
#81. Lots of things are more than what they seem in a purely physical sense.
Jim Butcher
#82. No wonder Thanksgiving was my favorite - you can't buy it, wrap it, or put it under a tree, and even the greeting card companies can't seem to make a buck off of it. It's just a meal, with people who you love and who love you back, no matter what.
C.I. Dennis
#83. Sometimes you just know ... And then it doesn't even seem scary. Just certain and joyful. Like a deep stream, flowing steady and strong, jumping and splashing and churning as it passes around and over the land in which it is grounded. And for this knowing, and flowing, I am grateful.
Vashti Lsc
#84. Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.
George MacDonald
#86. Our scars reveal who we are. The fact that we have experienced profound suffering in life - the fact that we carry what may seem to be unsightly scars - does not disqualify us from following Jesus. It may be precisely what qualifies us.
Jonathan Martin
#87. After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.
Guy De Maupassant
#88. I hardly seem yet," returned Charles Darnay, "to belong to this world again."
"I don't wonder at it; it's not so long since you were pretty far advanced on your way to another.
Charles Dickens
#89. It's always the scuffs in the marble that make its inner light seem to glow more brightly.
Alena Graedon
#90. I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'
Mary Roach
#91. People seem to believe that despair is the same as anguish, but it is not. It's true that despair is surrounded by anguish, but at its core, despair is a silent, blank page.
Elizabeth Kostova
#92. I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot ... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.
George Clooney
#93. If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
Charlotte Bronte
#94. And if we're talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.
Nic Pizzolatto
#95. Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Chuck Palahniuk
#96. I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well.
Michelle MacLaren
#97. I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never seem to know how to do it. Every book is different and takes a different structure, style, process, etc. And relearning how to write is where the insanity comes from.
Sarah MacLean
#98. Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.
Kristin Hersh
#99. Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.
Charlie Chaplin
#100. It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.
William Butler Yeats
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