Impressive Quotes

• But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Heart
  • Fighting
  • Difficulty

• A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Painting
  • Should
  • Deeds

• Some people can work on the road, and that's incredibly impressive... maybe I'm not working myself hard enough.

  

  Rex Orange County
  • People
  • Enough
  • Incredibly

• I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Safety
  • Calm
  • Danger

• I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Pretty
  • Impressive

• Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.

  

  David Bianculli
  • Drama
  • Television
  • Impossible

• That's the philosophy that we have always had. Going and playing in front of people and leaving an impressive from that standpoint.

  

  Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots
  • People
  • Philosophy
  • Leaving

• I cannot compare and contrast Tinder and Bumble directly, but I will say that we have a very impressive, forward-thinking user base.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Thinking
  • Say
  • Cannot

• A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

  

  Quintilian
  • Power
  • Training
  • Speech

• I love watching Crufts on the television, especially the agility tests; I find them very impressive.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Find
  • Especially
  • Agility

• I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Pleasure
  • Melancholy
  • Drag

• But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Goal
  • Painting
  • Ultimate

• I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Energy
  • Changed
  • Discouragement

• The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Enough

• To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Party
  • Opposites
  • Heresy

• I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Dream
  • Painting
  • Lively

• No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Blue
  • Wells
  • Orange

• B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • King
  • Blue
  • Guitar

• If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Succeed
  • Impressive
  • Warmth

• My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Mind
  • Dad
  • Technology

• We needed a few additions to an already impressive roster.

  

  Adriano Galliani
  • Impressive
  • Roster
  • Additions

• And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Soul
  • Painter
  • Machines

• The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?

  

  Will Shortz
  • Real
  • Solutions
  • Historical

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