Impression Quotes

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

No sale, no commission. No commission, no eat. That made an impression on me.

I don't do impressions.

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.

I can't do impressions.

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

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

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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

"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to happen.

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

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

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

One remembers different persons differently, some by the impact they have made on our emotions, and others by the impression they leave in our minds.

I think only a superb news or reportage picture could move me. Other photographs may leave a strong impression on me, but they don't move me.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

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

Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier.

Im known for impressions and family stories.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

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

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

I like to make an impression.

I think some people are under the impression that you can simply just shoot it on blue, and then it's all done in post. But no, you really need to understand the pipeline, from beginning to end.

That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions

Jack leaned over, “Ever get the impression that these women are way out of our league?” “I shot the last guy who said that to me.

Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.

I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration of them - which I think is really the way to do an impression.

As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

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

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

While the American people have the impression that scientists are hard at work figuring out this complex matter of climate change, it's not actually that complicated.

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.