Top 1200 First Impressions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

Acting is what I dreamed about when I was doing those impressions as a kid. Even if I didn't know it yet.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

I want to reach back to when R&B meant something, to when it made impressions on people.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

I used to take a recorder around and interview my parents and do impressions of my classmates as guests on my show.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

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

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

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

Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

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

I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.

My mum and dad aren't actors, but we all sit around doing impressions.

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.

Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.