Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?
~By Thomas Jane ~
I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.
~By Ashley Judd ~
Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
~By George Eliot ~
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
~By Childe Hassam ~
The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
~By Gene Tunney ~
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
~By Ernst Haas ~
I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.
~By Rory Bremner ~
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
~By Karl Lehmann ~
My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.
~By Jim Thome ~
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
~By Boutros Boutros Ghali ~
In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
~By Ed Miliband ~
I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
~By Adolf Galland ~
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
~By Andy Garcia ~
When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls.
~By Art Cooper ~
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.
~By Johnny Ball ~
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
~By Edmond De Goncourt ~
A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.
~By Graham Nelson ~
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
~By Henri Matisse ~
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
~By Charles Alexander Eastman ~
The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.
~By Joe Bob Briggs ~
This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.
~By Ruggero Leoncavallo ~
He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.
~By Johannes P. Muller ~
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
~By Jim Carrey ~
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
~By Henry Home ~
It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.
~By Robert Hamer ~
Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
~By Jacques Rivette ~
I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody.
~By Jay London ~
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
~By Philip Warren Anderson ~
Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.
~By Annette Funicello ~
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
~By George Boole ~
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
~By Colleen Atwood ~
The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
~By Hermann Broch ~
There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
~By Mia Hamm ~
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.
~By Robert Ripley ~
And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.
~By Mike Lookinland ~
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
~By Nathalie Sarraute ~
One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.
~By Jack Paar ~
Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
~By Thomas Couture ~
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
~By Ricardo Montalban ~
I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.
~By Sydney Schanberg ~
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
~By Edward Hopper ~
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
~By Billy Sunday ~
I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.
~By Peter Gallagher ~
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.
~By Michael Frayn ~
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
~By Pierre Loti ~
Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
~By Malcolm Gladwell ~
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
~By Timothy West ~
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
~By Edward Hopper ~
If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.
~By Steve Yzerman ~
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.
~By Don Adams ~
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
~By Horace ~
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
~By Alvin Ailey ~
And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.
~By Richard Dooling ~
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
~By Alan Keyes ~
We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
~By Johnny Ramone ~
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.
~By Alan Alda ~
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
~By Alan Brien ~
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
~By Robert Musil ~
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
~By Boyd Rice ~
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
~By John Ruskin ~
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
~By William Bernbach ~
I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
~By Douglass North ~
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
~By Sa'Di ~
In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right.
~By Robert Nelson ~
I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.
~By Robert Guillaume ~
I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
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