... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
I know from my own experience as a parent that parents probably teach most powerfully not through their words but through their… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
People tend to hold on to their first impressions - that's why those first descriptions can be so important. You don't even… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Whatever you do as an artist, people have to have an experience. It's not about the details or the wrong note or… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial… — Alan Brien Copy Share Image
There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they… — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how exciting it was, because Vincent Price had made a huge impression on me when I was a… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
“My impression is that life—a big word, I know—inflicts themes on a writer through certain experiences that impress themselves on his consciousness… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the movies first impressions are everything. Or, to put it less drastically, in the movies there are no later impressions without… — Clive James Copy Share Image
My great hope for my speck of time on this planet would be that I live and die, and that what I… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
Psychic impressions can also remain in a physical location for some time. You can move into a home just vacated, pick-up the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Greeks have to know that they are not alone ... Those who are fighting for the survivor of Greece inside the Euro… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea].… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
“My impression of you," Professor Ni told Raj gently, "is that I can give you a lot of work to do, but… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being… — Lance Gross Copy Share Image
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking…capable of pity and laughter..appreciative… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“That impression of yourself the devil is placing before you trying to convince you that is who you really are cannot beat… — E.N. Joy Copy Share Image