Seeming Quotes

I was 10 years old. Dad used to take us on location so the family wouldn`t be split up, so we were with him in the Philippines. That`s when the heart attack happened. He came back so pale and sick, so weak and thin, seeming so much older, and walking with a cane. This world of fantasy and artifice that I`d known suddenly was about real life and death, about the potential loss of a parent. It didn`t make any sense to me. It was enough to keep me away from acting for a long time. - On his father`s heart attack filming Apocalypse Now (1979).

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I`m afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

When today`s generation reads Jack`s books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today`s life and today`s sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

Much of what is published is actually science fantasy, seeming possible but actually impossible, such as faster than light space travel.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today`s music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Tis the witching hour of night, Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they?

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

This has the feeling of seeming to go on forever.