#seem

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#camden #dull #exciting #jersey #merely

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#genuine #go #ideals #indeed #my own

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#article #college #compared #like #politician

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#excitement #freedom #like #marriage #outside

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#grail #heart #holy #holy grail #i

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#create #fiction #invented #language #need

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#get #hard #harder #i #just

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#adjustment #combination #does #door #each

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#chapter #come #culture #every #exactly

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere. ↗

— James Wolcott

#going #had #hair #hudson #insincere