#impressions

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#child #combine #come #freely #go

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#comedians #different #entirely #impressionists #impressions

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#film #impressions #life #my life #part

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#brass #coins #current #gold #honor

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#imprint #lasting #leave #oar #people

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

People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#drive #else #everyone #faces #flattered

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #certain #compelled #consequences #consider

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