This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

The clerk impressed this upon me: that I should not arrive in the hall before ten o'clock.

That she impressed me instantly was obvious ; ;

I realized, now, that she had been showing me, in what impressed me as being a very accurate way, something her mother had once said to her ; ;

It really impressed me, the power of the music.

Douglass was inspired by Garrison and later stated that " no face and form ever impressed me with such sentiments the hatred of slavery as did those of William Lloyd Garrison.

Mao later noted that Chen's adoption of Marxism " deeply impressed me at what was probably a critical period in my life.

He had, in fact, made a point of giving prominence to the lighter phases of the romance, whereas it was its all-pervading tragedy that impressed me so deeply that I felt convinced it should stand out in bold relief, regardless of minor details.

He was so impressed by her and her friend Elizabeth Philpot that he wrote in his journal: " Miss Philpot and Mary Anning have been able to show me with utter certainty which are the icthyodorulites dorsal fins of sharks that correspond to different types.

The Cooperative Commonwealth of Gronlund also impressed me, but the writings of Kautsky were so clear and conclusive that I readily grasped, not merely his argument, but also caught the spirit of his socialist utterance – and I thank him and all who helped me out of darkness into light.

Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains-everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.

Davis appointed Benjamin to be the first Attorney General of the Confederacy on February 25, 1861, remarking later that he chose him because he " had a very high reputation as a lawyer, and my acquaintance with him in the Senate had impressed me with the lucidity of his intellect, his systematic habits, and capacity for labor ".

" They looked at Louis ' tux and all the other things I had made and they were very impressed ", she recalled, " but then someone asked me to play the piano.

The Prince was so impressed with my work that he brought me on to his staff fulltime in 1989.

: When I related my adventure to my Uncle, the Cardinal-Duke, He told me that He had no doubt of this singular Man ’ s being the celebrated Character known universally by the name of ‘ the wandering Jew .’ His not being permitted to pass more than fourteen days on the same spot, the burning Cross impressed upon his fore-head, the effect which it produced upon the Beholders, and many other circumstances give this supposition the colour of truth.

Formerly Louise had regularly referred to him as " the Monster ", but nevertheless made a request for a private interview with the emperor, whereon she threw herself at his feet ; though he was impressed by her grace and determination, Napoleon refused to make any concessions, writing back to his wife Empress Joséphine that Louise " is really charming and full of coquettishness toward me.

The other guests, disciples of Rikyū, snickered at the tea growers manner of making tea, but Rikyū was moved to say, “ It is the finest .” On the way home, one of the disciples asked Rikyū, “ Why were you so impressed by such a shameful performance ?” Rikyū answered, “ This man did not invite me with the idea of showing off his skill.

The first thing that impressed me was his speed.

James J. Corbett said of Jeffries, " The thing the always impressed me was the speed the youngster had, and he weighed two-hundred-twenty-five pounds.

Nash said that " the things that impressed me most about him were his character, his intelligence and his insight.

But what impressed me most was that early in the game Kenny got a major hip pointer and could barely walk.

Some critics were not impressed ; Robert Christgau wrote: " Although the candid propaganda and wily musicality of " Hurricane " delighted me for a long time, the deceitful bathos of its companion piece " Joey " tempts me to question the unsullied innocence of Rubin Carter himself ".

Widor, deeply impressed, agreed to teach Schweitzer without fee, and a great and influential friendship was begun.

The violent events of the French Revolution impressed themselves deeply into the mind of Francis ( as well as all other European monarchs ), and he came to distrust radicalism in any form.

The Spike Lee film Malcolm X impressed him deeply and sparked his interest in Islam.

His brilliant adaptation of Aristotelian thought to Biblical faith deeply impressed later Jewish thinkers, and had an unexpected immediate historical impact.

They will be deeply impressed with the truth, that Popery is a political as well as a religious system ; that in this respect it differs totally from all other sects, from all other forms of religion in the country .”

Here he had an opportunity of displaying his public spirit and integrity in a way that deeply impressed both the king and the country.

The medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 deeply impressed upon the world that experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and legally unacceptable.

Before leaving Paris he heard, and was deeply impressed by, the octet of the American jazz saxophonist Gerry Mulligan which was to give him the idea of forming his own octet on his return to Buenos Aires.

" But Patel was deeply impressed when Gandhi defied the British in Champaran for the sake of the area's oppressed farmers.

According to Baal-Teshuva, " he was impressed by the pioneering spirit of the people in the kibbutzim and deeply moved by the Wailing Wall and the other holy places ".

The scene ( which evoked in Christopher feelings about his alcoholic mother, Joanne Blundetto Moltisanti, and deceased father, Richard ( Dickie ) Moltisanti ) touched Christopher so deeply that it inspired him to cry ( and to later punch the student who played Jim's father in the scene ) and his emotionally true acting impressed Christopher's teacher and classmates.

* Jean Paul Sartre, " In Sein und Zeit Heidegger seems to have profited by study of his predecessors and to have been deeply impressed with this twofold necessity: ( 1 ) the relation between " human-realities " must be relation of being ; ( 2 ) this relation must cause " human-realities " to depend on one another in their essential being.

However, on some pottery, fingerprints have been impressed so deeply into the clay that they were possibly intended to serve as an identifying mark by the maker.

Though his thesis was on the subject of gynecology and obstetrics, Munthe was deeply impressed by the pioneering work in neurology done by Professor Jean-Martin Charcot, having attended his lectures at the Salpêtrière hospital.

When Williams came to Reed College to give a lecture, then students Snyder, Whalen, and Welch were deeply impressed.

Like many American composers of his time, he was deeply impressed by the symphonic achievement of Sibelius.

For example, Lord Byron was deeply impressed by René.

Fénelon and Guyon were cousins ; Fénelon was deeply impressed by her piety and actively discipled her ; he would later become a devotee and defender of her brand of Quietism.

In the spring of 1912, Manuel visited Switzerland, where he met Princess Augusta Victoria and was deeply impressed by her.

In his posts as head of ( sequentially ) the Bavarian State Opera, Meiningen Court Orchestra, and Berlin Philharmonic he brought a level of nuance and subtlety to orchestral performance previously heard only in solo instrumental playing, and in doing so made a profound impression on young artists like Richard Strauss, who at the age of 20 served as his assistant, and Felix Weingartner, who came to disapprove of his interpretations but was deeply impressed by his orchestral standards.

In 1902 Weininger went to Bayreuth where he witnessed a performance of Richard Wagner's Parsifal, which left him deeply impressed.

Ludwig Wittgenstein read the book as a schoolboy and was deeply impressed by it, later listing it as one of his influences and recommending it to friends.