Best Seems Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.”

“All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.”

“There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.”

Needs Character Stories Seems My Own Space Ordinary Everyday Abandon Take Me Everyday Life Retreat Time And Space Ordinary Life

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.”

Writing Seems Song Trouble Writing Songs

Author:Marian McPartland

“But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.”

Persons Seems Jobs Literature Particular

Author:Norman MacCaig

“When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.”

People Believe Seems Difficult Party Like You Bed Bidding

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.”

Way Two Seems Kids Too Much Right Now Manage Plenty Great Friend Full Life New Relationship Great Family Too Much Work

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl.”

Persons Seems Girl Nice Nice Person

Author:Sienna Miller

“Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.”

People Trying Seems Strange Corruption Guilty

Author:Alexei Navalny

“I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.”

Ifs Character Stories Seems Might Film Night Horror Scary Setting Weather Settings Horror Film

Author:David Naughton

“If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.”

People Ifs Looks Seems Games House Issues Car News Crisis Library Driven Setting Settings Missiles Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis

Author:Graham Nelson

“I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.”

Seems Lost Size Eight Pounds Unbelievable Hovering Cusp

Author:Kathy Najimy

“I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.”

People Looks Country Stories Bigs Seems Class Struggle Fans Labor Mark Our Country Epic Royalty Life Struggle Upper Class

Author:Lucas Neff

“It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.”

Ends Seems Black Gone Concepts Species Dust Fades

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.”

Way Sometimes Hard Seems Choices Heal Best Way Keep Positive

Author:Petra Nemcova

“I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.”

Has Beens Seems Hate I Hate Dumbing Down

Author:Sam Neill

“Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.”

Seems Political Found Causes Justice Issues Vulnerable Champion Als Gore Statutes Obstruction Perjury Great Political Ploy

Author:Barbara Olson

“I'd like to get into some sort of workout regimen so I can properly be healthy and exercise like a normal human being. I seem to not do that... ever.”

Humans I Can Seems Human Beings Exercise Healthy Normal Workout

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.”

Knows Looks Seems Window My Favorite Forests Parks Hotel Favorite Places Central Park

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.”

Seems Summer Forgotten Polls Rating Palin

Author:Ron Fournier

“From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.”

Seems Views Situation Prosperity Productions Point Of View Japan Consumption Asia Expanding New Situations

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.”

People Thinking Littles Seems Guy That Guy Edgy

Author:Patrice O'Neal

“I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.”

People Stills Seems Religious Struggle Atheist Bad Things Weird Things Offending

Author:Patton Oswalt

“Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.”

Years Seems Lying Certain President Four Policy Angry Democratic Guarantees President Obama Negativity Trails Rivals Romney Partisans Electorate Gridlock Vacuous

Author:Ron Fournier

“Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.”

Matter Seems Government Promise Congress Priorities Locals Passing Passings Thrive Mandates Breaking Promises Local Government

Author:Jared Polis

“Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.”

Writing Seems Differences My Own Reader Equal Importance Prose

Author:Kevin Powers

“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Trying Seems Pieces Influence Particular Degrees Determine Admire Input Counterproductive

Author:Kevin Powers

“I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.”

Thinking Enough Seems Care Successful Tragic Awards

Author:Louise Penny

“There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.”

Ideas Stories Seems Sky Empty No Idea Islands Buried Encouraging Sailing Good Story Good Writers Dump

Author:Stephen King

“Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?”

“Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.”

People God Seems Spirit Land Stronger Forsaken Great Spirit

Author:Chief Seattle

“The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?”

People Men Looks God Helping Seems White Brother Protect White Man Orphan

Author:Chief Seattle

“I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human.”

Way Needs Humans Seems Earth Challenges Perfect Growing Up Growing Planets Mets Boundaries Inherent Upbringing Planet Earth

Author:David Simon

“Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.”

Writing Sometimes Play Seems Roles Revision

Author:Ellen Hunnicutt

“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

“The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.”

Two Seems Lasts Mother Wife Essentials Affair Jew Posts Ministers Japan April Treaties Supplies Assistants Telegraph Foreign Affairs Food Supply Fisheries Molotov

Author:Arnold Leese

“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”

Way Seems Moving Term Nature Tree Woods Mysterious Redemption Metaphysical Static Inspirational Nature Mysterious Ways Inspiring Nature

Author:John Fowles

“The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.”

Giving Seems Actors Depends Performances

Author:Bela Lugosi

“I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.”

Matter Facts Seems Easy Stuff Watches Gone Comedy Air Asking Unfortunate Matter Of Fact Swearing Hbo Prudes

Author:Brian Lamb

“I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.”

People Want Heart Stories Seems Christian Share Arms Receiving Secular Feedback Relationship With God Open Arms Positive Feedback

Author:Brian Littrell

“I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.”

Writing Seems

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.”

Done Seems Film Planets Infinite Finite

Author:Diane Lane

“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.”

Knows Firsts Seems Would Be America Nations Perfect Leader Class Imagine Students College Citizens Creating Notion Absurd Supposed To Be Sat Diverse Composition Filling

Author:Eric Liu

“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Ends Seems Five Periods Six Years Ago Concrete Dead Ends

Author:James Laughlin

“I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.”

Thinking Mean Seems Reading Individual Poet Ordinary Say Anything Pedestrians Poetry Reading

Author:James Laughlin

“It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.”

Sometimes Seems America Consciousness Quality Failing Approach Experiments Japan Willingness Venture

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“It seems like people don't learn from the past.”

People Seems Past Learn From The Past

Author:Thomas Peterffy

“You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.”

People Way Made Helping Seems Streets Walking England Asking Impression Helpful Aggressive New Yorkers

Author:Archie Panjabi

“The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.”

Knows World Kind Country Seems Culture Speak Language Social Grace Heard Our Country Speaks French Social Graces

Author:Bernard Pivot

“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Firsts Two Shows Seems Political Careers Roles Concern Islam Obvious Divides Relevant Before And After

Author:Daniel Pipes

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