Impression Quotes

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.

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.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

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.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

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.

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

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.

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

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.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

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.

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.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

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.

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.

I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I'm a good actor. I think I look OK. I don't understand why I'm not working all the time.

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.