Quotes About Impression

But past events had impressed uponme how fast things could go wrong, and how different life might be after they did.

Basically, he liked anything until it harmed him and then he was wary. All creatures in life had an equal chance with my brother, from terrier to psychotherapist. Those that impressed him with an especially keen mental ability, an amusing trick or had a large portion of food to offer would gain his favor. If my brother could find nothing of value to the person, he would dismiss them entirely.

He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by.

Since, on the other hand, anyone plunging stubbornly into all this literature cannot resist the impression that though he encounters fragments of perhaps brilliant intellectual constructions, these fragments are mixed indiscriminately with the products of utter foolishness bordering on insanity, as an antithesis to the concept of the "oceanic yogi" there arose the idea of the "oceanic idiot.

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

The old differentiation between the German "uptown" Jew and the Russian of the "Lower East Side" has become a difference between the "quiet, cultivated Wall Street type" and the "noisy, pushy, Seventh Avenue type"—who do not mix any more easily than oil and water. And out of all this has come the impression that Jews "dominate" both these fields in the city.

A lot of parents make you feel very awkward when you meet them.

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe, should see the innumerable flaws of his life and have them taste wickedly in his mind and wish for another chance.

he had read and absorbed more than he could understand, so he lived by pastiche and pretence.

I'm not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they're wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero's 'sharply intelligent blue eyes' and 'outthrust determined chin'.

When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel Carrie he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought If THAT guy ever came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's. When it comes to actually pulling this off, the writer is much more fortunate than the filmmaker, who is almost always doomed to show too much  . . . . including, in nine cases out of ten, the zipper running up the monster's back.

If you wear a big smile on your face and a really nice shoes on your feet, chances are that most people will like you.

Would you rather have people be impressed by who you are or respect who you've become?

People will stare. Make it worth their while.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

I don't believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love.

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, colored by what you thought of them.

My sister actually has a "thinking face." It makes people wait before speaking to her. Dad says my thinking face makes it look like I want to go to the loo.

More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.

I had been wrong when I said Liza McCullen wasn't beautiful: when she smiled she was stunning.

I don't think he'll be able to see you over the radio," Frances ventured. "But I still want to look nice for him." Margaret