Quotes About First impression

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

Helena Bonham Carter was 19 when we made 'A Room with a View'. She came for the interview in these extraordinary boots and a black dress, and sat with her feet out in front of her.

Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said.

The girl cupped her hands over her eyes and blinked. She was pretty enough, with blonde highlights that you can only find in youth or a bottle. "Hi." Loren

The receptionist wore a hideous wig and looked at us as though we'd just plopped out of a dog's behind. I

The girl at the door was young. Eighteen, twenty, something like that. Nope, not a Jehovah's Witness. Didn't have that scooped-out-brain smile.

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

I remember when I interviewed at MSNBC, one of the first things they said to me was, 'In your tapes, you had a mustache, right?' I said, 'Yeah, I recently took it off.' I said, 'If you hire me, you get to decide if you want it or not.' They said, 'No, no, we're fine with it now.'

I know a lot of people talk about Seal's bicycle shorts, but it is the truth! That is what he was wearing the first time I met him and I was overwhelmed.

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

Bad luck that my first glimpse of Venice was marred by an insult.

everyone knows—that if you blow the opener, nobody remembers anything else.

My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful.

One day I was showing the sea to a girl who was seeing it for the first time; she declared that she thought a field of potatoes was a far more impressive sight.

Some books are judged by their covers, it seems, and in my uniform I was an immediate best seller.

The only right memory, is the one that first comes to you.

We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.

You only get one chance to make a positive first impression — be absolutely sure to take it!

HOW TO BE A GIRL ON A DATE

When I met people they said, 'You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.'

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.

How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.