#impressive

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#am #being #fact #fall #i

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#art form #been #cinema #effects #extraordinary

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#anything #before #being #ever #genealogy

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#cannot #difference #even #exact #failure

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#how #impressive #matter #mediocrity #motivate

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#could #down #get #guys #gym

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

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

— P. D. James

#dries #first #gush #human #human kindness

They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#again #been #few #i #impressive

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#claims #embody #frequent #high #impressive