#impress

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked. ↗

— Dennis Nilsen

#clothed #dead #fully #go #got

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#agreement #anyone #because #care #deeply

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#basis #best #branches #colour #equal

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#also #audience #especially #harder #here

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#amnesia #gives #impression #laugh #makes

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#i #impression #laboring #lift #read

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#forms #harnessing #impression #magic #mind

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

#begins #certain #directors #film #films

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effect #external #external things #fallacy #falseness

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#brainy #conservatives #his #how #impressed