Impression Quotes

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

There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.

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

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

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

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

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

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

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.

By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.

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.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can't always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it's 40 degrees outside.

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

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.

It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

I just don't give off a great first impression.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

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.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

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.

I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes on our souls. It reacts — or does not react — by putting it on paper.

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

Certain travelers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.