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.
In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night.
Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it is precisely this that unlocks the outer world for us; for without this non-sensible something, each of us would remain locked up in his inner world.
For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.
Nowadays, performers who want to create their own material put it on the Internet. I never knew whether or not it would make an impression - and frankly, I didn't care that much about how it would be received.
I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful. . . servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.
If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection
There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.
I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.
You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice.
I think American men are more conscious of putting up a good impression. There's more of an earthiness to Englishmen. But Americans aren't afraid to come up and say, `Hi, I'd like to go out with you. ' Englishmen are far more sheepish about it.
When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.
I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of cynical people out there right now, and probably for good reason. But I think that ever cynic is really a damaged romantic, and they really, really, really want things to be good. And if that's the case, I don't need to tell a story that says, "Humanity, look what you've done. Now you can't go out. There's no sun. Look how you've wrecked the world. " That's not me. That's not my job.
I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment. . . a job.
I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.
She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway.
When I first came round in the medical center after my accident, the first face I saw was Ayrton's, with tears in his eyes. I had never seen that with Ayrton before. I just had the impression that he felt as if my accident was like one of his own. He helped me a lot with my career and I can't find the words to describe his loss.