#impression

My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective. ↗

— Robert Ripley

#apart #effective #glass #him #i

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#correct #cuts #down #educational #genius

You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#asking #bumped #certainly #directions #down

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

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#been #calculated #cavalry #consequence #force

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

#every #films #impression #influenced #made

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

— Philip Warren Anderson

#europe #father #important #impression #sabbatical

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#distinctly #effect #general #happiest #impression

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#bare #beauty #cannot #delight #give

I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#been #ever #few #hard #hit