Quotes with seemed

Quotes 61 till 80 of 85.

  • Charlotte Brontë Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Bob Cousy That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Cal Hubbard The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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  • Roger Bannister The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
    Roger Bannister
    English athlete and physician (1929 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Arthur Koestler The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Albert J. Nock The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bela Lugosi The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Berlie Doherty The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
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  • Bobby McFerrin Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Abbey Lincoln There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Lydia Davis There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.
    Lydia Davis
    American writer (1947 - )
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  • Bob Kane There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman.
    Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Ernest Hemingway They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Anne Dudley We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Bill Bryson We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Burnie Burns We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Anthony Holden Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Ben Stein When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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