Quotes About Impressionable

I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

I think a lot of the Disney cartoons are scary when you watch them at a young age.

People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it.

I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'

'Poltergeist' was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age - 5 or 6 years old - and it has one of the creepiest doll sequences with the clown, and ever since then, I've just been fascinated by dolls.

I was watching 'The Godfather' at a very young age.

I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.

nervous sufferers are the most irritable, that is, have the most sensibility: tenuousness of fiber, delicacy of organism; but they also have an easily impressionable soul, an unquiet heart, too strong a sympathy for what happens around them.

All children are flotsam driven by the ebb and flow of adult lives.

Yancy might have found humor in the bourbon-soaked TV version of rural Southern life, if Buck was just another harmless stooge. But he wasn't. He was a septic inspiration to impressionable mouth-breathers such as Benny the Blister.

Abby_Donovan: Heathcliff was a misogynistic asshole. MarkBaynard: Could you explain that to my Lit 101 class? I hate to see all those impressionable young females swoowing over him like he's Edward Cullen. Abby_Donovan: I've always been Team Jacob myself. And Team Mr Rochester.

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

Children had the gift, the second sight, the sixth sense. Sometimes she wondered if most writers were really just children who'd never grown up.

Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.

When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing for young people. You feel like you can help shape somebody.

I wanted to model when I was younger.

Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while they are still at an impressionable age. Nearly four out of five high school cigarette smokers will become adult smokers, even if they intend to quit in a few years. By the time they want to quit, they're hooked.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.