#seemed

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#angry #bee #blind #buzzing #every

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. ↗

— John Cheever

#could #go #nothing #seemed #splendid

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. ↗

— Joan Didion

#child #engage #failed #flat #had

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#collapse #doing #felt #home #like

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

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#afraid #always #fail #fighting #guess

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#aim #fixed #gaze #goal #great

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#affection #certain #day #enormous #every