#seemed

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #cell #cell phone #coping #difficulty

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#disappear #i #just #like #literally

I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made. ↗

— Benh Zeitlin

#films #horrifying #i #industry #kid

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#almost #anyway #child #disappeared #force

When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game? ↗

— Steve Sabol

#before #bid #championship #double #father

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself. ↗

— Sallust

#great reward #itself #just #reward #seemed

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#created #germans #had #jab #life

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#because #ghetto #good #i #important

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#age #both #characters #i #i tried

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#dull #england #everything #exciting #incredibly