My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with… — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum. — Douglas Carswell Copy Share Image
Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
I will take responsibility for any impression or anything I've ever done that people have legitimate questions about. But I think that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I heard friends and strangers saying, "You don't look Arab - what are you supposed to be?" It really is a tired… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind… — Marian Anderson Copy Share Image
We have this impression of Africa being a large mass of homogenous land but Africa is actually very diverse. I had shot… — Chunky Pandey Copy Share Image
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
“My first impression of Venice was that it might be hard to make anything happen there. Everything seemed to have already happened.… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority. — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Saying no to a project is not easy. I'm always under the impression that I might end up upsetting the director or… — Brahmanandam Copy Share Image
The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
We can't give the impression to our allies or friends in Asia that because the president is against TPP... that therefore, economically,… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
