I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play.
There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a long way on it. . . these composers they will get more performances, more commissions, more recognition just by having that disc
It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.
Women never cease to impress and inspire me.
The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.
Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!
I can cook a few things. I always save the same recipes to impress my friends, and I always do two or three things, so they think I can cook. But I don't know how to do anything else.
I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least.
Now, [hip-hopgrime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town. " We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.
Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition; if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.
The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.
I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.
You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.
The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
It's amazing how dumb people can impress you with how much stupider they can be when they really assert themselves.
The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies. . . You really want to impress us? Bring us back our FLAG!