Quotes Tagged "seem"

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Isn't it funny - why is it called a tennis bracelet? It doesn't seem very tennis, does it?

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

Fashion designers seem the busiest people on the planet.

A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.

Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.

If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.