Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
~By Charles Alexander Eastman ~
I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
~By Dennis Farina ~
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
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 publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.
~By Rudolf Hilferding ~
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
~By Childe Hassam ~
I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense.
~By Sarah Sutton ~
I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.
~By Marian Anderson ~
I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.
~By Katherine Moennig ~
Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
~By John Ruskin ~
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 ~
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 to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
~By Billy Zane ~
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
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 ~
Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
~By Alastair Wood ~
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
~By Edward Hopper ~
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 ~
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
~By Henri Poincare ~
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 ~
If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.
~By Charles Dance ~
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
~By Philip Warren Anderson ~
They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.
~By Katie Couric ~
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
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 went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody.
~By Jay London ~
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 ~
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
~By Walter Pater ~
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
~By David Low ~
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
~By John Ruskin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
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'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've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.
~By Rory Bremner ~
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
~By Edvard Munch ~
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 ~
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 had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.
~By Lee Child ~
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 ~
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.
~By James Brady ~
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 ~
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 ~
People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!
~By Ron Wood ~
This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.
~By Ruggero Leoncavallo ~
I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
~By Douglass North ~
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 ~
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 an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
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 ~
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
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 ~
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
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 ~
An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.
~By John J. Sirica ~
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
~By Edward Furlong ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
~By William Bernbach ~
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
~By Alberto Giacometti ~
In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.
~By Dennis Nilsen ~
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 ~
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
~By Rory Bremner ~
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
~By Mackenzie Astin ~
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
~By Saul Bellow ~
I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
~By Emma Goldman ~
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
~By Alice Hamilton ~
Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
~By Camille Pissarro ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.
~By King George V ~
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
~By Alvin Ailey ~
I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.
~By Aries Spears ~
But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.
~By Robert Walpole ~
Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.
~By John Podhoretz ~
One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.
~By Eric Clapton ~
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 impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Even my great grand-mother did impressions.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
~By Francois Truffaut ~
A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.
~By Trent Lott ~
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.
~By Howard Carter ~
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
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