Best 198 quotes in «impression quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 daughter has impressions that she does of me.

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

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

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.

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.

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.

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

The extreme always makes an impression.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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.

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.