Pastoral Resources

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

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

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?