Quotes About First impression

It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake -- fairly or unfairly -- get me off to a bad start with a person.

The first time you meet Winston you see all his faults," Pamela would explain years later to Edward Marsh, Churchill's private secretary, "and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?

Her gaze strayed to Kane's friends. What had they thought of her at first glance? She's been slung over Kane's shoulder, so... probably not much. "I'm really quite wonderful," she muttered.

Mr. Evans? I called. A moment of your time? He looked at me as if he'd never seen me before. Do I know you? My name is Dina. I own the bed-and-breakfast. He glanced past me at the old house sitting at the mouth of the subdivision. That monstrosity? Aren't you sweet? Yes.

They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived.

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them, no matter what facts develop later on.

We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.

I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.

I was ten years old when I first saw the inheritance and twenty years old when I first saw Janna Roslyn, but my reaction to both was identical. I wanted them.

It's nice to meet you, Elise," he says, a slow, sexy smile pulling at his lips. "I'm Harlin.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

The first day, week and month of an employee's experience carries a lasting impression.

You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." "That's too bad," said Jace, "since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

You never get a second chance to have a first impression.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

Alone, Roarke took the gray fabric button from his pocket, the one he'd found on the floor of his limo. The one that had fallen from the jacket of that drab gray suit she'd worn the first time he'd seen her.

The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.

I took a while to fall in love with Val d'Isere. It was November 1985 and, keen to delay getting a 'serious job' after university, I had signed up for a season as a chalet girl. What struck me first back then, as I rolled into town on the Bladon Lines bus, was the sheer ugliness of the place.

As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me.

A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway.

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

As soon as I entered the room, he cried out, without any other greeting: You've gotten very fat! It was his way of disarming, I thought, any horror I might have felt at his own pudding-like rotundity, which had trebled since I had seen him last.