#impress

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#brass #coins #current #gold #honor

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#comic #doing #i #impression #more

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#brown #i #impression #james #james brown

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing. ↗

— Major Taylor

#benefit #bicycle #champions #discourage #entertained

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. ↗

— Edward Albee

#happen #immediately #impressions #know #loose

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#bomb #could #even #fail #general

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#going #good #good job #happen #happened

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. ↗

— Walter Pater

#conjecture #each #ever #experience #group

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed. ↗

— Stuart Pearce

#get #i #impression #just #me

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#award #cannot #difficult #i #ideals