In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!
Francisco de Quevedo

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
William Hazlitt

Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.
Patty Hearst

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
Nathan Lane

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.
Roger Penrose

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.
Jenna Elfman

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James Baldwin

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.
Nigella Lawson

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
Joan Jett

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.
Catherine Deneuve

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.
Catherine Deneuve

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Samuel Richardson

Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.
Kid Rock

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
Joan Jett

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.
William Howard Taft

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
William Howard Taft

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.
Jimmy Connors