I Quotes
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“Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.”
Source: Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings
“Impressed how some women can use victims of rape and incest to support their decision to have unprotected sex with strangers.
They never seem worried about STDs either.”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.”
Source: Life of Washington
“Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
“Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.”
“Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.”
“Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .”
Source: Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963
“Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.”
Source: Secrets to inner beauty
“Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.”
“Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.”
“Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.”
“Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.”
“Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).”
“Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.”
“Impressionists have to paint with a very broad stroke because you've got to see it within a couple of seconds. You go, "That's a really funny Robert De Niro." As an actor, though, you look at different aspects of a character. I try to completely surround myself with the assignment. It's like being in a big cloud and then some of it rains through.”
“Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.”
“Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.”
“Impressive,' Ash murmured.
I stared at him. 'What is?'
'You.”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember
“Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact”
Source: Scientific Advertising
“Impressive,' I said.
'Thank you. I've had plenty of practice drinking terrible alcohol.'
'Not that,' I gestured broadly to him, up and down. 'That.'
His eyebrow twitched. 'I've had a lot of practice on my physique, too. I didn't think you'd noticed.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“Impressive technological development makes us capable of measuring almost everything, but measurement error problems still remain.”
“Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar)”
“Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him.”
“Imprint kindness upon every path you tread… Let every step you take bear the mark of kindness.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound”
Source: Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse
“Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.”
“Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.”
“Imprisoned peace sets the war free”
“Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.”
“Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.”
“Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror”
Source: Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922
“Imprisonment gives off an unpleasant smell. Remnants of macerating evil thoughts, the effluvia of dirty ideas that have been hanging around too long, the bitter whiff of old regrets. Fresh air, by definition, never enters here. We breathe in our own breath in this bell jar, we share the atmosphere shot through with shards off brown chicken and dark intentions. Our clothes, our sheets and our skin end up saturated with these fumes, and there is no getting used to them. When we return from the exercise yard, and the outside air is halted at the turnstiles, the transition is always sudden, and the vague nausea is there to remind us that we live and breathe in a belly pushing us along in its laborious digestion, and then, when the time comes, it will expel us to free itself, not to give us back our freedom.”
Source: Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
“Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.”
“Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.”
“Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of its duration it can seldom be kept from becoming general public knowledge. It [...] can have a lasting demoralising effect on the character and personality of the offender. The loss of liberty, tedium, regimentation [...] which prison life entails, have a greater potentiality than a whipping for destroying the offender's self-esteem and the integrity of his character and for changing, for the worse, his way of life.”
“Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse”
Source: The Ides of March: A Novel
“Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.”
Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929
“Improbability, as described here, is a relative notion, not an absolute one; when we say an outcome is improbable, we are always saying, explicitly or not, that it is improbable under some set of hypotheses we've made about the underling mechanisms of the world.”
“Improbable as it may be, the day still has a few indignities left. The day waters down indignity with frustration to make it last longer. Abomination, thy name is Subway. He cannot enter. They flood through turnstiles, hips banging rods, and will not let him enter. He must get home, but it's all he can do to get halfway in before another one charges at him. A fish out of school. Everybody knows how it works except for him. All of them from every floor are crammed into this one subway car: the makers of memos, the routers of memos, the indexers filers and shredders of memos, the always-at-their-desks and the never-around. How do they all fit. Squabbling like pigeons over stale crumbs of seats. Everyone thinks they are more deserving, everyone thinks their day has been harder than everyone else's, and everyone is correct.”
Source: The Colossus of New York
“Improbable things happen a lot...”
“Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.”
“Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.”
Source: Health and Healing: The Philosophy of Integrative Medicine
“Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.”
“Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth.”
“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
“Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.”
“Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.”
“Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.”