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Impression Quotes
"No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful."
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"Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent."
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"Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them."
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"My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective."
"I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that."
"This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide."
"Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write."
"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."
"As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression."
"Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films."
"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
"If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression."
"A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more."
"I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional."
"I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down."
"When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom."
"One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma."
"I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles."
"My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man."
"One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar."
"The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression."
"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."
"Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do."
"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."
"I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back."
"Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting."
"The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression."
"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."
"You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong."
"In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right."
"In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression."
"My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be."
"You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again."
"But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy."
"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."
"I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things."
"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."
"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
"We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression."
"I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job."
"Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here."
"So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered."
"Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare."
"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them."
"I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors."
"I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed."
"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"
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