Impressive Quotes

He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some help in doing so.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.

This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. . . . Odessa is both celebration and lament and equally impressive as both.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Just trying to keep everything in check, you know, it gives me a lot of respect for closers. You're doing that 75 times a year, so that's pretty impressive.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished.

It's not impressive to get in a fight, but if one does happen, you've gotta be ready to handle it. Every girl, not just biker chicks, knows what kind of guy can.

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

Very impressive. Where did you learn that?" Made it up just now.

A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky.

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity.

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.