#impression

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. ↗

— Ken Burns

#being #defining #deprive #good #history

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#good #good actors #i #i tried #impression

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#accepted #because #been #considered #country

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#constructed #deeply #discover #displaced #facts

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#derby #dollars #few #going #guess

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair. ↗

— Billy Graham

#i #impression #negative #new #new york

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#dogma #fixed #i #impression #just

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#beat #impression #just #lasting #leave

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. ↗

— Julius Charles Hare

#impressions #like #longest #mind #ones

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. ↗

— Childe Hassam

#brain #eye #impression #interpretation #makes