Impression famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
-- Andrew Solomon -
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
-- Aristotle -
One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
-- Aulis Sallinen -
I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.
-- Bobby Moynihan -
We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.
-- C. R. Smith -
It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.
-- Cary Grant -
The extreme always seems to make an impression.
-- Christian Slater -
I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.
-- Christopher Walken -
I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
-- Claude Monet -
After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.
-- Dan Castellaneta -
It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.
-- Emil Zatopek -
Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
-- Florenz Ziegfeld -
the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.
-- Frances Wright -
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
-- Francoise Sagan -
Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
-- Gustav Mahler -
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
-- Hermann Broch -
A color is as strong as the impression it creates.
-- Ivan Albright -
You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice.
-- James Vincent McMorrow -
The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.
-- JC Chasez -
Never lose the first impression which has moved you.
-- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot -
Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.
-- John Ashbery -
History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.
-- John Dean -
If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.
-- John F. Carlson -
Even my great grand-mother did impressions
-- Julia Louis-Dreyfus -
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
-- Marquis de Sade -
You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.
-- Michael Frayn -
Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression.
-- Monica Murphy -
I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
-- Nadine Labaki -
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.
-- Nathalie Sarraute -
Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.
-- Neal Shusterman -
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
-- Pamela Stephenson -
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux -
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.
-- Pierre Bayle -
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
-- Quentin Crisp -
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
-- Robert Musil -
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
-- Robert Schumann -
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
-- Saul Bellow -
I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.
-- Stuart Pearce -
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
-- Sylvia Plath -
My impression is that the people who say most understand least.
-- Sylvia Thompson -
A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.
-- Ted Cruz -
She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
-- Thomas Hardy -
I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?
-- Thomas Jane -
There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.
-- Tom Freston -
I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
-- Baron Vaughn -
The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.
-- Catherine Camus -
When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.
-- Ed Simons -
To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.
-- Jerome Frank -
Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.
-- John Gimlette -
If we Europeans are not in a state to be able to solve the refugee crisis ourselves, if we only depend on Plan B with Turkey - then that is not simply an impression, it is the truth. But Europe cannot be susceptible to blackmail or be weak. I am, in any case, not in favor of having a deal with Turkey at any price.
-- Sebastian Kurz -
At first I was laboring under the impression that Chinese lyrics didn't rhyme. That turned out to be untrue - they don't rhyme in translation.
-- Stephin Merritt -
Neural repatterning comes as we enter into and sustain new types of relationships that allow us to reregulate our sense impressions slowly and over time.
-- Tian Dayton -
I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.
-- Xavier Dolan -
My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.
-- Alejandro Amenabar -
She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway.
-- Richard Masur -
The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.
-- Frances Xavier Cabrini -
I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.
-- Rory Bremner -
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
-- Rory Bremner -
Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it is precisely this that unlocks the outer world for us; for without this non-sensible something, each of us would remain locked up in his inner world.
-- Gottlob Frege
