Impression Quotes

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An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water. — Arthur Eddington
The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasnâ€™t… — Douglas Adams
Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians. — Samuel Beckett
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save… — Vladimir Nabokov
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures:… — Mark Steyn
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;… — John Stuart Mill
When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate,… — Diablo Cody
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the… — W. Somerset Maugham
Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among… — Martin Amis
Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than… — Terry Pratchett
I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. — Daniel Handler
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. — John Barnes
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves… — Sigmund Freud
Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the… — Fannie Flagg
Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention… — Charles Dickens
When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image. — Louise Rennison

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