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Quotes About Impressions

A menudo las primeras impresiones son absolutamente equivocadas. Puedes mirar un cuadro por primera vez y que no te guste nada, pero, después de mirarlo un rato, te puede parecer muy agradable
~ Lemony Snicket
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Paintings were more than mere wall decorations. Art was a reflection of the artist's soul and the world around them. To paint was to create impressions that brought joy or shed light on humankind's shared journey.
~ Jan Moran
Art was a reflection of the artist's soul and the world around them. To paint was to create impressions that brought joy or shed light on humankind's shared journey.
~ Jan Moran
We [women] certainly do not forget you [men] as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.
~ Jane Austen
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick easy outer impression they give.
~ Jane Jacobs
He doesn't look gay." "Of course he does. His skin is flawless and his haircut is perfect. And look at his slacks. Not a single wrinkle." "How does he do that?" Leo asked. "I always get the wrinkles.
~ Janet Evanovich
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
~ Charles Eastman
I behave differently in different situations, and I'm slightly unstable and insecure, which I think are natural conditions of what I do. And I have a weird ear. Whatever I hear, I emulate. When I was a kid I did impressions: Forrest Gump, Rain Man, really big caricatures.
~ Max Minghella
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
~ Claude Monet
It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.
~ Robert Bellarmine
I'd hate to think that the stereotypical American is someone who just says 'Hi - bye' in conversation. That's how Europeans see us. And I'd like to think that not all of us are like that.
~ Cedric Bixler-Zavala
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
~ Daniel Breaker
I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'
~ John Gordon Sinclair
The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
~ Kristen Stewart
People are persuaded to spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to create impressions that won't last, on people we don't care about.
~ Tim Jackson
What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
~ Tim O'Brien
Specifically, let's say you were interviewing Chris, you'd say, 'Everyone says Chris is great, but . . .' and then you'd sit there in silence. Do
~ Timothy Ferriss
Oddly, I'm not a huge fan of Brisbane in Australia. I can't quite put my finger on why - it just seemed to lack verve, and I don't have any great desire to go back.
~ Christopher Timothy
There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
~ Bill Medley
We Europeans really have the picture of this very open-minded Australia.
~ Conchita Wurst
Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? CECILY: Oh no. [Puts her hand over it.] You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.
~ Oscar Wilde
I said in Dorian Gray that the great sins of the world take place in the brain: but it is in the brain that everything takes place. We know now that we do not see with the eyes or hear with the ears. They are really channels for the transmission, adequate or inadequate, of sense impressions. It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
~ Oscar Wilde