Impression Quotes - Page 15

• Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.

  Catherine Taylor

  First Impression, Looks, Firsts

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• I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

  Adrian Tomine

  Character, People, Realization

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

  Adrian Tomine

  Character, Artist, Trying

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full of uncertainties. It still is. My "Buddha book" expresses that. Perhaps that's what created this impression of earnestness.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.

  Shakira

  People, Daydreaming

  "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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• We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.

  Kofi Annan

  Creating, Expectations, People

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 18, 2012.

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• When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.

  Scott Pelley

  Country, Men, Views

  Source: deadline.com

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• Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Crime Books, Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “Crime and Punishment”, p.261, Sai ePublications

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• The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Mean, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Men, Errors

  Carl von Clausewitz (1989). “On War”, p.193, Princeton University Press

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• The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Careers, Political, Wish

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.

  Martin Amis

  Sorry, Believe, Hypnosis

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.277, Vintage

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• This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

  Dorothea Lange

  Looks, Benefits, Quiet

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• [The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Exposure, Transformed

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• Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions; make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.

  Henry James

  Views, Interesting, Glimpse

  Henry James (1980). “Letters”, p.257, Harvard University Press

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• ... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial you have to use not a shadow but a sign, not the limitation but the image. The image is a new and different reality, and of course it does not convey an impression of some object, but the mind of the subject; and that is something else again.

  Thomas Merton

  Reality, Mind, Shadow

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• Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own. When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that.

  Jim Carrey

  Character, Kids, Stuff

  "Carrey: 'I Threw Myself Down the Stairs'". www.digitalspy.com. December 30, 2009.

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• I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.

  Jon Stewart

  Men, Voice, Giving

  "Jon Stewart Roasts Real News". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 21, 2004.

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• A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.

  Bill Moyers

  Trying, Saboteurs, Producers

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• I'm Fasinated by women who aren't making a great impression on people. I think there's probably something there that is more than meets the eye.

  Calista Flockhart

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• Walk around. If you are invisible, the mystique of the President's office may perpetuate inaccurate impressions about you or the President, to his detriment. After all, you may not be as bad as they're saying.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Office, President, May

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Art, Latin, Giving

  Robert McAfee Brown (1964). “Observer in Rome”

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• My Obama is getting pretty good ... I think I'll vote for whoever makes my portrayal easier. It takes time to put together a comic impression. It takes time to recognize the tics. Right now, for instance, I could do a dead- on Paul Ryan and people wouldn't recognize it. Personalities take a while to sin.

  Dana Carvey

  Thinking, People, Personality

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• When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

  Ashley Greene

  Quiet, Mets, Outgoing

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• I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this guy come from? Is he from outer space?' I'd never heard anything like the way he played-not in Chicago, no place. The tone-he had this wonderful, ringing cornet tone. He could have played in a symphony orchestra with that tone. But also the intervals he played, the figures-whatever the hell he did. There was a refinement about his playing. You know, in those days I played a little trumpet, and I could play all the solos from his records, by heart.

  Benny Goodman

  Heart, Thinking, Play

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