Best 198 quotes in «impression quotes» category

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

First impressions are always unreliable.

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression.

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

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.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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