Impression Quotes
1118 quotes by 875 authors
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I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
— Dennis Farina
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
— Marquis de Sade
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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
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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
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Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.
— Audre Lorde
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.
— John Ashbery
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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
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...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
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What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
— Charles Dickens
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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
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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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