#seemed

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

I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#disappointed #expected #film #first #had

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#communities #give #hindu #human #human race

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#child #confronted #critical #direction #father

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense. ↗

— John Sexton

#come #forest #forms #i #looking

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#desire #figure #help #his #ideals

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#cult #get #get married #i #like

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#element #ever #get #hot #hot water