Quotes About Impressions

Our desires permeate our perceptions

Confidence is everything, and the way you carry yourself, your posture, eye contact, all of that is such a big role in impressions, regardless of your size.

The group disbanded prematurely in 1983, but its records made a sizable mark: Mission of Burma became a band's band; leaving noticeable impressions on the likes of Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo.

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

In truth, every one of us leads a double life. We act one way when the door is open, another when it's closed. We have certain impressions we try to make on others, pretenses we strive to keep up.

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. [ Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005 ]

But it seemed to him the world was brighter, more intense, more alive than he had remembered. Colours were more vibrant, shimmering; the scents of ordinary things, wet pavement, bricks in sunlight, unripe peaches, felt layered and dizzyingly complex.

In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it.

Being the Bachelorette holds a lot of pressure, especially on this first night since I was making my decision solely based on first impressions.

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

O passado esquecido às vezes me surpreende com impressões inesperadas, momentos dos quais mal me lembrava, até eles me revisitarem.

Malo stvari ?itatelja može obilježiti onako kako to ?ini prva knjiga koja prona?e put do njegova srca. Te prve slike, odjek rije?i za koje mislimo da su ostale za nama, prate nas cijeloga života i u našem sje?anju klešu pala?u kojoj ?emo se, ranije ili kasnije - koliko god knjiga pro?itali, koliko god svjetova otkrili, koliko god nau?ili ili zaboravili - jednom vratiti.

Dad was more into last impressions than first ones, which makes his death all the more symbolic.

but I was sure he'd been talking about the home of someone white, because he'd said, All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high.

Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions.

I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

You could be in a room with somebody you don't realize you're in a room with and that first impression or something that you give off might be appreciated by someone or it might not. I'm always just being mindful of you never know who's watching.

The reality is that the past is gone; all that's left of it now is impressions or images lingering in the depths of our consciousness. Yet these images from the past continue to haunt us, block us, and otherwise influence our behavior in the present, causing us to say and do things we don't really want. We lose all our freedom.