Best 198 quotes in «impression quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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 have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

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 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'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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

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

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 extreme always makes an impression.

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.

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