#seemed

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#consisted #crises #days #ever #every

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#always #claim #commits #credit #deed

The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get. ↗

— William Beebe

#longer #seemed #smaller #were

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing. ↗

— Warren Bennis

#being #control #cutting #doing #end

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. ↗

— Walt Disney

#around #brother #business #corner #disaster

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#destined #failure #many #out #people

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#boatload #days #did #equipment #first

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that. ↗

— Carla Bley

#baker #chet #gerry #i #like

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#am #i #i am #knew #men

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings. ↗

— Chad Everett

#because #bored #different #easily #feelings