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Expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.
— Virginia Gildersleeve
Having someone prancing around with an active chain saw while the ground shifted seemed spectacularly unwise.
— Daniel O'Malley
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
— Zora Neale Hurston
When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.
— Esther Dalseno
The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.
— P.G. Wodehouse
He loved the woods, where it seemed to him that every life was secret, including his own.
— Wendell Berry
I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.
— Catherine O'Hara
It seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year.
— Ayn Rand
I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.
— Frederick Lenz
Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.
— Liane Moriarty
When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.
— Portia De Rossi
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
— Lawrence Welk
I heard that Harry Nilsson had died. The secret to being a successful hellraiser, it seemed, was to stop raising hell before hell razed you.
— Pete Townshend
If my good mood were a raft named Gaby, it seemed like it was on the verge of sinking.
— Mariana Zapata
He seemed casually at home, as if he felt that the place belonged to them, as they always felt wherever they went together.
— Ayn Rand
Sure enough, he seemed to straighten a little more with every step of her fuck-me heels.
— Voirey Linger
It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard.
— Arthur C. Clarke
There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale so soon as pleasure.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.
— Jack Kent Cooke
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
— W. Somerset Maugham
While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now and then with gusts of emotion.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.
— Melissa Bank
And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.
— Karen Blixen
In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusion provided to engage and excite us
— Brandon Sanderson
Indeed, as I made my critique, the problem seemed to me not that there are differences but rather how we value these differences.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
— Marvin Minsky
I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye.
— Robertson Davies
Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
— Feist
Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.
— Thomas Hardy
What'll be your biography? "At that point, life seemed pretty bleak. Then (insert your name) did a surprising thing...
— Richard Bach
It seemed as if hell were put into His cup; He seized it, and at one tremendous draught of love, He drank damnation dry.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
What had seemed like love was betrayal
— Claudia Gray
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.
— Pierre Bonnard
But maybe a broken heart seemed a simple price to pay, the way that all costs that must be settled in the future appear, until they suddenly come due.
— Alice Hoffman
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
— Mitch Albom
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
— Erica Jong
I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
People seemed to have this unstoppable need to give and receive stuff they could easily afford to go out and get for themselves anyway.
— J.D. Robb
In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology — Zack Love
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology — Zack Love
It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.
— Irvine Welsh
He seemed so cold. Like a shadow caused by heat and light falling on someone honorable and true, casting this black imitation behind.
— Brandon Sanderson
When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
— Bryan Ferry
I hadn't been looking for trouble, but it seemed that now that I'd found it, I wasn't running from it, either.
— Chanel Cleeton
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
— Lionel Blue
As he grew, the other children grew as well - all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig
— David Eddings
From the accident, and she seemed weak to him. It
— Danielle Steel
The room seemed suddenly to clarify, as when a chance scatter of stars resolves into a constellation before the eye.
— Eleanor Catton
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
Their yellow eyes seemed to hold ancient knowledge, as if their memories of want and drought and survival were so much more than Maria's.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Pretend you're good at it." It seemed too simple, but it was all I had so I scrawled the words on my arm and repeated it as a mantra.
— Jenny Lawson
My dad and Patricia viewed my decision to become a vegetarian largely in terms of the way it seemed to complicate their dinner menus.
— Chris Bohjalian
The right words always seemed to come too late.
— Haruki Murakami
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
— Wilfred Owen
It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
— Aimee Bender
As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures.
— Marcia Muller
I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.
— Daniel Woodrell
That girl seemed awful nice. If that bastard did anything to her, I've got a crowbar in my trunk that'll fit might fine up that moron's ass.
— Vonnie Davis
To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.
— Darin Strauss
Somewhere along the line, I'd developed a deep, burning dislike for the human race. There seemed to be no cure.
— Adrianne Brooks
This all seemed insane. The
— Jasmine Kennedy
The incident, played out for, it seemed, a few infinitely elastic seconds, caused a certain calculation to go through the boy's head.
— Neel Mukherjee
She did some sort of magic bra trick to get it off and out of her shirt. All women seemed to know the same maneuver.
— Jamie McGuire
The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
— Stephen Malkmus
She smiled... and let loose a happy scream that seemed to release decades of insecurity, unhappiness, obsessiveness and worry.
— Viola Shipman
Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.
— Madeline Miller
her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun.
— Thomas Hardy
To Han Solo, the galaxy seemed a more dangerous place by far.
— R.A. Salvatore
Those nights when the future seemed to last only till the morning and he would count off the hours, one by one, by the chimes of distant church bells.
— Paolo Giordano
The gaze of Daniio's slow cousin eye seemed to be wandering off, as if distracted by pretty flowers, or perhaps a rainbow.*
— Jay Kristoff
He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
What Hans had intended to end at a simple kiss quickly escalated into something neither one of them seemed able to stop.
— Nicki Elson
It often struck me as strange and disagreeable to hear him utter severe strictures upon some of these persons who seemed to me so good.
— Leo Tolstoy
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest dude.
— Thomm Quackenbush
I didn't say anything at all, because somehow saying nothing seemed more humane than giving him all these reassurances.
— Jennifer Brown
She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself.
— Joan G. Robinson
The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.
— Matt Haig
Kids expected adults to show up in this part of their world. Because they were comfortable with us, introductions to their friends seemed natural.
— Mark H. Senter III
My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream.
— Jimmy Fallon
I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.
— Carlisle Floyd
hard-scraping tools, with his sharp-featured face and the mirthless dark eyes that seemed always, whenever
— Susanna Kearsley
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
— Barry Hannah
Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.
— Lucy Grealy
Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.
— James Baldwin
And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson
When I looked around, with my wife, Sarasota seemed like the best place in Florida. We settled about one mile from Siesta Key.
— John Lutz
He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne