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Seeming Quotes (page 125)

Carson McCullers quote: "His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting..."
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years. Carson McCullers
Jose Saramago quote: "Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all."
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all. Jose Saramago
Nature constantly begins the same things over again, years, days, hours, spaces too. And numbers run end to end, one after another. This makes something in a way infinite and eternal. It is not that any of this is really infinite and eternal, but these finite entities multiply infinitely. Thus only number, which multiplies them, seems to me to be infinite. Blaise Pascal
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. Mark Twain
Barbara Pym quote: "The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to..."
The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one. Barbara Pym
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Is all that we see or seem. But a dream within a dream?"
Is all that we see or seem. But a dream within a dream? Edgar Allan Poe
Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive. Tom Robbins
Cara waggled a hand over the two of them. "It works better with your clothes off."Richard frowned. His voice came as a hoarse croak. "What?"She seemed mystified by the question. "I believe you will find such things work better without clothes." She put her hands to her hips. "I thought you would know at least that much. Terry Goodkind
Thomas Jefferson quote: "New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all..."
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. Thomas Jefferson
My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career. John Waters
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "Everyone in the room was so spectral-looking that Madeleine’s..."
Everyone in the room was so spectral-looking that Madeleine’s natural healthiness seemed suspect, like a vote for Reagan. Jeffrey Eugenides
We ignore the blackness of outer space and pay attention to the stars, especially if they seem to order themselves into constellations. “Common as the air” meant something worthless, but Hackworth knew that every breath of air that Fiona drew, lying in her little bed at night, just a silver flow in the moonlight, was used by her body to make skin and hair and bones. The air became Fiona, and deserving—no, demanding—of love. Ordering matter was the sole endeavor of Life, whether it was a... Neal Stephenson
I quizzed him a lot on this point and i suspect the truth was that it was like a lot of things at that age: you don't have any clear reason, you just do it. You do it because you think it might get a laugh, or because you want to see if it'll cause a stir. And when you're asked to explain afterwards, it doesn't seem to make any sense. Kazuo Ishiguro
Were it not for habit, life would seem delightful to beings constantly under threat of dying, in other words to all humankind. Marcel Proust
Don't get me wrong - I was not a Nazi, and in my eyes Hitler seemed like some absurd character in an operetta. But, it would have been almost impossible not to be infected by the optimism about the future, which was rife among ordinary people in Hamburg. - Henrik Vanger Steig Larsson

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