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Impression Quotes
"No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful."
68
"Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent."
55
"I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed."
30
"But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression."
27
"It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us."
26
"Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make."
26
"Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them."
24
"I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit."
23
"Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare."
22
"My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man."
21
"A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more."
20
"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."
20
"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."
19
"I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job."
19
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
19
"My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective."
18
"I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back."
18
"I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things."
18
"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"
18
"Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me."
17
"As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression."
17
"One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar."
17
"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."
17
"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."
17
"So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered."
17
"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."
17
"The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression."
16
"Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting."
16
"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."
16
"We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression."
16
"This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide."
15
"I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional."
15
"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."
15
"You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again."
15
"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."
15
"In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked."
15
"And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today."
15
"One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma."
14
"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."
14
"I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors."
14
"I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression."
14
"I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that."
13
"Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do."
13
"You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong."
13
"Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films."
12
"My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be."
12
"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."
12
"I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days."
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