Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.

— Pharrell Williams

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

— Garrison Keillor

Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made no impression on them at all.

— Kevin Spacey

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

— Edward Hopper

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

— Rory Bremner

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

— Alvin Ailey

One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'

— George Vecsey

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

— Richard Jefferies