Quotes About Impressionable

#1. A man need not be ashamed of moist eyes when he gazes on the face of some loved one who is far away. It's human. It shows a kindly heart, an impressionable mind!
("The Doomed Man")

Dick Donovan

#2. I feel more pressure when I'm writing for teens. I'm very aware that my audience is impressionable. Therefore, I'm far more careful about what I say and the language I use.

Sarah Mlynowski

#3. Elementary school children are very impressionable

David J. Anderson

#4. Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.

Marvin J. Ashton

#5. He wasn't dealing with underage girls or porn, just spreading the word of jihad to young, impressionable people, which, unfortunately, was not a crime.

Kenneth Eade

#6. My parents, worried that I might become popular at school, got me a book of puns at an impressionable age.

Alexandra Petri

#7. My style of dressing is extremely personal. I am impressionable only to a certain extent. The rest of
it is my personal concoction consisting of my favourite trends.

Shraddha Kapoor

#8. Instead of hearing the message he was trying to impress upon me and the impressionable queer ears hanging on his every word, all I could think was, I can't believe he just told them all how old I am.
- Jason's reaction to Chad's speech

Ethan Day

#9. To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.

W.A. Mathieu

#10. The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.

Ben Lerner

#11. There are in life a few miraculous moments when the right person is there to tell you what you need to hear and you are still open enough, impressionable enough, to take it in.

Ann Patchett

#12. Dante.
He loved me so deep and so hard that I was blinded by it.
I thought it was a miracle. I was so young, so impressionable, so infatuated.
So stupid. For years and years, all I had the sense to do was bask in it.
I let our love rule my life. It was everything to me.

R.K. Lilley

#13. I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.

Aeriel Miranda

#14. 'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.

Ron Funches

#15. Exposing impressionable young men to the glories of opera on their first evening at home with you tended to put the kiss of death on things, as Oliver, to his cost, had discovered over the years.

Anthony McDonald

#16. Lisa blamed Twilight, and the preconceived notions about men (especially dangerous men) that it tended to form in the impressionable adolescent mind.

Nenia Campbell

#17. Many ... have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

Thomas Hardy

#18. When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the crowd: it is so easy for it to go over to the majority.

Seneca.

#19. How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#20. For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

Arthur Rackham

#21. I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

Chris O'Donnell

#22. You can't help hearing things that are popular when you're young and impressionable.

Matt Tong

#23. I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean ... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I-I don't ...

Rick Riordan

#24. I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.

Alex Ferguson

#25. There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

Socrates

#26. Minds weren't pictures at an exhibition, all numbered, and hung in order of influence, one marked "Cunning," the next, "Impressionable." They were scrawls; they were sprawling splashes of graffiti, unpredictable, unconfinable.

Clive Barker

#27. I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.

Halsey

#28. I hardly think it wise to put the idea of flying into the heads of impressionable teenagers who are already battling the challenges of lunacy.

Julie Halpern

#29. 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.

Teresa Medeiros

#30. Good afternoon, here I am in your multimillion-dollar home covered in people dust and smelling vaguely of rot. Please pay me a large sum of money to mold the impressionable mind of your teenager.

Caitlin Doughty

#31. I don't want ISIS using our Internet to take our young, impressionable youth and watching the media talking about how they're masterminds - these are masterminds. They shouldn't be using the word "mastermind."

Donald Trump

#32. There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#33. And what does he have to say to the impressionable young student at his side? That all poets must eventually bow before the haiku. Bow before the haiku! Can you imagine." "For my part," contributed the Count, "I am glad that Homer wasn't born in Japan." Mishka

Amor Towles

#34. Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

Tip O'Neill

#35. I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments.

Tod Machover

#36. It's good to love. It's bad to be impressionable.

Roberto Bolano

#37. 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.

J.M. Coetzee

#38. Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.

Piers Anthony

#39. When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

Samantha Power

#40. Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

Sam Kinison

#41. The leaders were less willing to fight. It is always the young and impressionable who strap on the explosives and blow themselves up.

Mark Owen

#42. That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

Michael Monroe

#43. There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

Garry Trudeau

#44. People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.

Anthony Liccione

#45. As one door closes another opens some do say, but at times, when panic is born, all doors are blown asunder, hope driven all but fully under, and in the back of young, impressionable minds.

Rosca Marx

#46. Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

Leo Tolstoy

#47. I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That's what its about at the end of the day. However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I'm an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.

Aeriel Miranda

#48. The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

Katherine Anne Porter

#49. I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

Katee Sackhoff

#50. The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#51. A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

Adrian Tomine

#52. The girl is an accident waiting to happen: vulnerable, impressionable, and foolish as the day is long.

Tessa Dawn

#53. You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.

Katee Sackhoff

#54. Creation is quite impressionable. Everyone leaves a trail of their actions. And everyone, however wise, however powerful, however immortal, makes mistakes.
All it requires is the patience to wait for them. And you'll find no one, in all Creation, quite so patient as Death.

Ari Marmell

#55. I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

Gayle King

#56. Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

Grimes

#57. The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.

William Wendt

#58. Katz couldn't have said exactly why Walter mattered to him. No doubt part of it was simply an accident of grandfathering: of forming an attachment at an impressionable ago, before the contours of his personality were fully set.

Jonathan Franzen

#59. I understand what it is like to rely on beauty and know the shallowness of it ... Yet, it is impossible to say if you would have caught my attention the first time had you been plain and wrapped in brown. Thus remains the endless dilemma of beauty's impressionable curse.

Anne Mallory

#60. I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

Ray Stevenson

#61. I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

Jessa Crispin

#62. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark