Impression Quotes

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My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. — Alvin Ailey
Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make… — John Muir
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a… — Andrew Solomon
The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him… — Mike Harding
[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of… — Ayn Rand
I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're… — Joe Bradley
One of the things I love about the theater is that no one can tell you to stop. Once you're onstage, it's three hours, and… — Carey Mulligan
An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out… — Ben Ames Williams
There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and… — Alphonse de Lamartine
After years of doing impressions, its time for a change. — Dan Castellaneta
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes… — Marcus Aurelius
Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service… — Marcus Aurelius
Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment. — Marcus Aurelius
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man… — Paul Valery
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated… — Harper Lee
The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it… — Charles Duke
Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase. — Wallace D. Wattles
I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on. — Richard Armour
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It… — Saul Bellow
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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