Impression

Famous quotes containing the word impression:

“I’ve always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.”
—François Truffaut (1932–1984)

“From time to time we met a priest in the streets, for they are distinguished by their dress, like the civil police. Like clergymen generally, with or without the gown, they made on us the impression of effeminacy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don’t try to predict what.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)