Impression Quotes - Page 18

• The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Ostriches, Wish, Important

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1039, Delphi Classics

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• I mean, in many ways, you know, I felt very connected to Ian (Dury) on, on a lot of levels. I mean, politically, & sort of, socially, our, kind of, social backgrounds are quite similar in many ways, as well as our kind of artistic endeavors. So there were many, many things that sort of chimed in for me, and kind of made me feel very instinctive about playing him, and, and although, there was sort of a certain amount of impression involved, actually, there's a lot of myself in the role.

  Andy Serkis

  Mean, Roles, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Eye, Landscape, Cameras

  Olafur Eliasson, Matthew Drutt (2004). “Olafur Eliasson: photographs”

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• Horrible date all through high school and college. Here's an impression of me on a date in high school. Come on, chug it!

  David Spade

  School, College, Dating

  "David Spade: Take the Hit". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.

  Daniel Tosh

  Liars, First Impression, Firsts

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• It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.

  Bill Viola

  Vision

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• One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.

  W. G. Sebald

  Memories, Despair, Littles

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• If it's just the voice, then you can only do jokes. It's not really even about the impression so much. It's about the take and what you do with the person. I try to get a character across with the impression.

  Frank Caliendo

  Character, Voice, Trying

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• It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.

  Frank Caliendo

  Simple, Two, People

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• ... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

  Michael Light

  Cameras, Gravestone, Photograph

  "100 Suns and the Nuclear Sublime". Interview with Robert Hirsch, lightresearch.net. July / August 2005.

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• What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.

  Sophie Ristelhueber

  Bombs, Swallowing, Shock

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