But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
~By Francois Truffaut ~
I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody.
~By Jay London ~
I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.
~By Greg Maddux ~
I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.
~By Bernard Hinault ~
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
~By Ernst Haas ~
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 ~
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 ~
But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
~By Edward Furlong ~
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 ~
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
~By Edward Albee ~
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 ~
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
~By Childe Hassam ~
My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.
~By Naima Adedapo ~
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
~By George Eliot ~
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 ~
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 ~
The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.
~By Shane West ~
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 ~
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
~By Maria Monk ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
~By George Eliot ~
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 ~
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 ~
If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
~By Mackenzie Astin ~
I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.
~By Donald Judd ~
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 ~
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
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 ~
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
~By Henri Matisse ~
I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
~By Dennis Farina ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
~By Henry Home ~
If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.
~By Sting ~
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 ~
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 ~
Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
~By Joan Jett ~
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 ~
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
~By Dalai Lama ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.
~By Rudolf Hilferding ~
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 ~
I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.
~By Aries Spears ~
The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
~By Charles Alexander Eastman ~
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
~By Alastair Wood ~
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.
~By Jack Paar ~
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 ~
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 ~
The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
~By Anita Desai ~
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.
~By William Bernbach ~
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'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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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