Impression Quotes

• I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Half
  • Impression
  • Gone

• I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Feelings
  • Consciousness
  • Host

• One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Inside
  • Photographs
  • Stirring

• While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Right
  • Privacy
  • Roberts

• Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Jesus
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Impression
  • Dance Of Mind
  • Horror Show

• A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Lazy
  • Critics
  • Compare

• I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Writing
  • Christian
  • Fiction

• An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.

  

  William James
  • Eye
  • Motor
  • Incomplete

• Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

  

  Mian Muhammad Mansha
  • Thinking
  • Impression
  • Pakistan

• The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.

  

  Mike Harding
  • Humorous
  • Enormous
  • Display

• Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy.

  

  Katie Hopkins
  • Business
  • Lazy
  • Efficient

• First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality, but his people belong to a prosperous middle-class world, on holiday and in holiday mood. Piers Plowman stands alone as a revelation of the ignorance and misery of the lower classes, whose multiplied grievances came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

  

  William Langland
  • People
  • Reality
  • Holiday

• I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to the people who I photograph, I just go, along, banging away. So I don't really have a relationship with them. A lot of people think it's very important. I don't. It's like love at first sight. I have an impression when I see somebody, and I have an idea of who they are, or what they are.

  

  William Klein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Only the really plain people know about love-the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Impression
  • Talents

• If I say electrons behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Behave
  • Particles

• I don't want people to get the impression that I got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Money
  • Cocky

• Proving that the best villains have the charisma of a hero, (Jason) Statham makes a strong impression, supplying the kind of menace that permeates the movie even when he's not on screen. His fight with (Dwayne) Johnson doesn't have the bang you'd expect from a The Transporter versus The Rock match-up, but the climactic Statham-(Vin)Diesel battle more than delivers.

  

  Alonso Duralde
  • Movie
  • Hero
  • Impression

• Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • World
  • Giving
  • Mathematics

• Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Differences
  • Compare
  • Angle

• Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.

  

  Billy Joel
  • California
  • Impression
  • Wild West

• If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.

  

  Deniz Gamze Erguven
  • Architecture
  • Seen
  • Temper

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