Impression

Famous quotes containing the word impression:

“Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!
Men may dien of imaginacioun,
So deepe may impression be take.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)