Impression Quotes
1118 quotes by 875 authors
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Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.
— Ernst Junger
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To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We…
— Judith Butler
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Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution,…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what…
— John Berger
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There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.
— Nikola Tesla
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You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice.
— James Vincent McMorrow
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
— Carine Roitfeld
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Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Engineers are either aggressive or passive aggressive. You need to just dive straight into it, and sometimes there are social repercussions because of it. The…
— Ruchi Sanghvi
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People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the…
— Scott Stossel
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In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon landing was right…
— Michael J. Massimino
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My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in…
— Charles J. Shields
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The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
— Richard Jefferies
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I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were…
— Els Borst
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I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit.…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy…
— Dorothy Hodgkin
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U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on…
— Noam Chomsky
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I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.
— Tom Stoppard
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I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at…
— Andy Daly
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I get the impression that most Chinese entrepreneurs are so focussed on doing what they need to do to succeed in the Chinese market -…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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