Impression Quotes

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

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 fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

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

I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.

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

Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.

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.

Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable.

The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.

She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway.

Sure," said Adrian. "I bet going in there and kicking down the door will change their minds. Take Rose with you, and you guys'll make a really good impression.

You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

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.

He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.

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

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

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

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

The first day, week and month of an employees experience carries a lasting impression.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

I'm a gunfighter, Jim, not a demonologist." Sin moved past him so that he could burn the body o n the ground. "Nice Bones impression. Roddenberry would be proud.

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

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

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.

If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.

Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.

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

At first I was laboring under the impression that Chinese lyrics didn't rhyme. That turned out to be untrue - they don't rhyme in translation.

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

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

I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.