#impressions

Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong. ↗

— Henry James

#anger

Thank you. I realize my methods have dampened your spirits somewhat, but in the long run you will not regret it." She did not answer, simply preceded him to the door of her room. "You look very nice tonight, Claire. May I say that that color suits you admirably." The door closed in his face. ↗

— Shelley Adina

#anger

We'd already talked in the stacks, and I knew you were different from any other girl I'd met. And you told me that your parents were dead, and I thought that you were so . . . lost and vulnerable. So when I saw you in the physics lab . . . and I saw you try and take care of someone that you thought who had been through what you'd been through; could be that . . . well, generous, and thoughtfull . . ." Guy said. "But you hardly knew me." said Willow "I know . . . I didn't know that we'd even talk again, or that if we did, if we'd get along, or maybe you were seeing someone else . . . I just knew that the way you tried to protect someone's life that, especially given your situation . . . I just . . . I though that you had to be the most special girl I would ever meet . . . ↗

— Julia Hoban

#sweet-talk #life

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#between #call #false #few #impressions

He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it. ↗

— Shane West

#became #connery #cool #doing #end

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#being #experienced #human #human being #i

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression. ↗

— Billy Zane

#always #better #character #enjoy #first

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#i #impressions #spontaneous

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#been #believe #communion #despite #first

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#experiences #form #future #future life #gave