Quotes About Impressions

Airline passengers usually look like where they're going—business suits to Washington, D.C., jeans to L.A.

It is natural that if some fright or calamity surprises us when we are enjoying ourselves it will affect us more strongly than usual, in part because of the contrast thus made very palpable, and in part, and perhaps more, because our senses have been opened to feeling and so take in impressions much faster.

By far the larger number of the dreams occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars.

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

Understand a man by his deeds and words; the impressions of others lead to false judgment.

Never take a girl to the movies on a first date! That's basically like, 'We don't want to hear you talk.'

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

Our bodies are of such complexity of structure, the motions we perform are so numerous and involved, and the external impressions on our sense organs to such a degree delicate and elusive that it is hard for the average person to grasp this fact.

Ti rivelo un piccolo segreto da donne: il motivo per cui una ragazza al primo appuntamento preferisce andare a cena, è perché così capisce com'è che lui la scoperà. Uno zoticone che si ingozza, senza mai soffermarsi su quello che mangia, be'... con uno così a letto non ci vai.

Here's a single girl's secret. The reason you eat dinner with a man on a first date is so you know how he's going to fuck you. A slob who gobbles down the meal, never looks at a bite, you know not to crawl into bed with that guy.

You're a different human being to everyone you meet.

In Cora's shock, the world drained to gray impressions. The first color to return was the simmering brown-red of the soil in her family's plot.

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

Standing now, apparently transfixed, by the pear tree, impressions poured in upon her of those two men, and to follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one's pencil, and the voice was her own voice saying without prompting undeniable, everlasting, contradictory things, so that even the fissures and humps on the bark of the pear tree were irrevocably fixed there for eternity.

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

I thought at last that it was time to roll up the crumpled skin of the day, with its arguments and its impressions and its anger and its laughter, and cast it into the hedge. A thousand stars were flashing across the blue wastes of the sky.