#seemed

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. ↗

— Steven Chu

#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i

I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in. ↗

— Rob Cohen

#bother #continued #finally #gave #get

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. ↗

— Enya

#been #celebrity #could #did #famous

If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better. ↗

— Peter Finch

#better #broke #cheerful #decided #else

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready. ↗

— Mary Garden

#could #did #done #eastern #even

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. ↗

— Helen Garner

#development #going #interest #like #me

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#established #firmly #francis #i #monarchy

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. ↗

— Gary Larson

#black #black hole #calendar #cartoon #daily

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#base #converted #creed #desert #fear

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#desert #indeed #inexpressible #seemed #thought