I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
My parents were divorced when I was 11, and it made such a profound impression on my life that I suppose I… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression… — Richard Kalvar Copy Share Image
I wanted women wearing my sweaters to give the impression they were naked. The aim wasn't to impose outfits but to stay… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. — Joseph Barbera Copy Share Image
I started reading the Carlos Baker biography of Dad but couldn't finish it. I had the impression I was reading about a… — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
