#impress

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. ↗

— Quintilian

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However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute. ↗

— Frederick Reines

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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. ↗

— Herb Ritts

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Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

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

— Philip Warren Anderson

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Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.' ↗

— Peyton Manning

#boy #field #football #impression #me

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#ago #asked #come #course #done

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress. ↗

— LeBron James

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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. ↗

— P. D. James

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