Impression Quotes

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I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script. — Dennis Farina
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about… — Leo Tolstoy
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or… — Albert Einstein
There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and… — Louise Dickinson Rich
I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who… — Emmanuelle Beart
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. — Marquis de Sade
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through… — Blaise Pascal
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind… — Jane Jacobs
Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul. — Audre Lorde
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was… — Zora Neale Hurston
I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds. — Paul Watson
We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once… — Eliza R. Snow
Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes, so that it's really left… — Ric Ocasek
Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves. — John Ashbery
The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so… — Orison Swett Marden
...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part… — Mike Birbiglia
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world! — Charles Dickens
For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like… — Billy Zane
The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But… — Harriet Quimby

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