Best 198 quotes in «impression quotes» category

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.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

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.

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.

If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voiceovers. You can be completely unconscious with the rest of your body and just concentrate on doing something with your voice, creating an entire character with your voice.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.

I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.

Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.

Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).

Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

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.

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.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

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.

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.