Quotes About Imprint

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

Alas, Madame Straus, there are no certainties, even grammatical ones.… [O]nly that which bears the imprint of our choice, our taste, our uncertainty, our desire and our weakness can be beautiful.

L'amore diventa il sedimento del cuore, del tutto analogo ai "reperti" di una tomba. Come in questa si può tracciare il posto preso dal corpo, dalle vesti, dagli utensili necessari all'altra sua vita, così nel cuore dell'amante si ritrova, come un'ombra indelebile, l'impronta di ciò che ama.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

It's not what you take, it's what you leave.

So that's where I get it from. My dad. He lives in a fantasy world.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

what had appeared accidental to me in the past, now often seemed to bear the imprint of supernatural intent. Once you see it you can't unsee it: the supernatural is not supernatural; the ordinary world is suffused with the miraculous. Here

Memory is more indelible than ink.

I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

And left the flushed print in a poppy there.

We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

Forty years ago, but it feels like yesterday. They don't disappear, the dead. It'd be easier if they did. I can see her so clearly. If she walked up those steps now, part of me wouldn't be surprised. She was such a vivid person.

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Cualquier distorsión que el cerebro es capaz de imprimir en la lattice y el hipercampo es una manifestación de poder, desde las que activan las imágenes visuales hasta las que modifican el factor de direccionalidad colectivo.

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

What they could tell from an imprint I could barely see was astonishing. "This one old man—short steps," they'd say, touching the ground with a walking stick; or "This is woman carrying baby;" or "This one Swapo—man with gun walks proud. You see?" "Ah, yes, mm-hmm," I nodded, seeing nothing I could remotely identify as a footprint.

What we learn in childhood is carved in stone. What we learn as adults is carved in ice.