Seems Quotes - Page 37

• It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Art, Opera, Relevant

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• I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Grace, Way

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.6, Regnery Publishing

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• There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Children, People, Sometimes

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• This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be?

  Charles Yu

  People, Care, Want

  Charles Yu (2012). “Sorry Please Thank You: Stories”, p.48, Vintage

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• All God makes is good.  Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

  Ann Voskamp

  Used, Accomplish, Gods Will

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.88, Zondervan

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• So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Life, Self, People

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• It seems now that the place where you see
  the most obvious censorship is on college campuses --
  the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

  Alan Charles Kors

  College, Censorship, Campus

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• There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.

  Carrie Jones

  Book, Fighting, Dust

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.

  Scott Berkun

  People, Giving, Priorities

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• Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor.

  Colleen Houck

  Waiting, Twists, Watches

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• Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

  Max Cannon

  Way, Milkman

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• It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad.

  Mark E. Hyman

  Acne, Pads, Ends

  "Acne: Are Milk and Sugar the Causes?" by Mark Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2011.

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• What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real. Religion seems born in the home, stays in the home. I mean, the services are even held in the home. And there's not one person in charge, one speaker set above the others. It's farmers and carpenters, and well, just average folk speaking spontaneously about the message they find in the Bible. [...] A message from the heart to the heart.

  Barbara Cameron

  Real, Believe, Home

  Barbara Cameron (2010). “A Time To Love”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't like belief systems and even less like those that peddle self-righteousness. I have no doubt the minister was a sincere man, but I am not as impressed by the idea of sincerity as the sincere seem to be.

  Jenny Diski

  Men, Self, Ideas

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• I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!

  Lorrie Fair

  Athlete, School, Thinking

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• Lists help us manage the chaos of our lives—to impose order, if only for a moment. Writing a list clears the mind. … Once everything is written down, it’s easier to see which tasks are important and in what order to tackle them. Tasks that seem overwhelming look easier when reduced to mere lines on paper.

  Sasha Cagen

  Writing, Order, Mind

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• Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

  Tim Tharp

  Book, Hey, Littles

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.109, Scholastic UK

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• It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

  Peter Greenaway

  Eye, Hands, Two

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• Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the body. Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

  Peter Greenaway

  Artist, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To quote a recent customer email, “I really appreciate your thoughtful and professional response. I don’t get that a lot from customer service. Usually, it’s scripted nonsense that makes it seem like I’ve done something wrong. You’ve single-handedly improved my perception tenfold. Someone there ought to give you a pay raise."

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Thoughtful, Appreciate, Giving

  "12 Surefire Strategies to Increase Customer Loyalty". www.businessinsider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.

  Jon Pareles

  New Orleans, Vintage, Tunes

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• I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble—everything seems important—so of course nothing is.

  Greg McKeown

  Thinking, Important, Courses

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• Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.230

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• To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Mean

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.152, Macmillan

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• Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Peaceful, Spirit

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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