All Quotes

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.
‐‐ Evan Hunter

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
‐‐ Hanif Kureishi

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.
‐‐ Henry Ossawa Tanner

It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.
‐‐ Susanna Clarke

It seemed to me the perfect company for the 21st century would be one that was technology-orientated with great content and national scale.
‐‐ Brian L. Roberts

It seemed to me to be entirely un-kosher, if that's a word, to try to put a debate about war right in front of the midterm to try to affect the midterm outcomes.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.
‐‐ Nikki Grimes

It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.
‐‐ Jason Isaacs

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
‐‐ John Ruskin

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.
‐‐ Krista Allen

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'
‐‐ Michael Patrick King

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.
‐‐ Ruth Bernhard

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
‐‐ David Byrne

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.
‐‐ Heather Brooke

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.
‐‐ Henry L. Stimson

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
‐‐ Anne Bronte

It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.
‐‐ Jim Bunning

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.
‐‐ John Cleese

It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
‐‐ Lascelles Abercrombie

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?
‐‐ Jennine Capó Crucet

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
‐‐ Alexei Sayle

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.
‐‐ Noah Taylor

It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
‐‐ Ed Smith

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.
‐‐ Robert Powell

It seems everyone is converging on a simple set of facts: Our lives are digital, and we wish to share our lives. Pinterest came at it through images, artfully curated. Facebook came at it through friends, cunningly organized. Dropbox came to it via files, cleverly clouded.
‐‐ John Battelle

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

It seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis

It seems everyone wants to know if I have an eating disorder, and playing an anorexic character on 'Make it or Break It' probably didn't help much. To set the record straight, I certainly do not have an eating disorder. I think as anyone can gather, I love food, and it is not just a front to cover up the fact that I don't eat any.
‐‐ Alice Greczyn

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
‐‐ Kenneth Koch

It seems extraordinary to have waited so long into one's life to have found the part that actually uses your basic rhythm. And I think that's always sort of what actors connect up with - their own sort of world.
‐‐ Susan Sullivan

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.
‐‐ Thomas Pogge

It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.
‐‐ Eric Stoltz

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.
‐‐ David Foster Wallace

It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can't be good.
‐‐ George Packer

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
‐‐ Fyodor Dostoevsky

It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg