E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"You confuse what's important with what's impressive."
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Impressive
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Educated men are so impressive."
Alfred North Whitehead
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived."
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite."
Hank Green
Entrepreneur, Author, YouTuber
"I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity."
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"A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability."
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"It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd."
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"Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death."
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"The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness."
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