Best 198 quotes in «impression quotes» category

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.

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

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

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

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.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

The impression that is out there about me is that I'm really hard-nosed, but the people who really know me, know that I am a soft touch.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

The extreme always makes an impression.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.

The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.

The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

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.

The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

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.

The people I work with have a very good impression of me for sure, because of how I am.

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

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.

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.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful.

To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage, happened on the stage and I developed it from there. It started doing impressions and jokes - which I did very poorly. To this day I can't tell a joke. That sounds nuts, but it's true. I exaggerate it and it becomes a joke. Everything I've ever done I've done out on the stage and it became a performance over many many years.

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

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.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

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.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

A straight face is an ignorant man’s attempt to appear knowledgeable.

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

A legacy is the impact and impression an individual makes and leaves behind in the lives of others; it no longer represents the individual, it represents the people who carry on his or her name with passion and integrity.

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.

88% of men impress to undress. 88% of women undress to impress.