Quotes About Impression

You do not dress to please yourself; you dress to please others.

She looks at once like someone who could have worked as a runway model and someone who would be mildly put off to hear that.

Perhaps we did not read so many books, or learn languages so quickly, as those who are disciplined according to the ordinary methods; but what we learned was impressed the more deeply on our memories.

based on the way they look. If

A smile is one of the simplest strategies to immediately raise the value of your first impression. It

If you glance at someone and immediately think, "Oh, that person looks like a teacher," or "that person looks like they were in the military," or "that person looks like they are an actor," tell them that.

Hamish shrugged. "It's all pretty cool and impressive … if you never saw fucking Jurassic Park .

No shoe should be judged by its footprint, for the foot has a print of its own.

David had, in fact, done the Sherlock thing that Stevie had dismissed for herself, specifically, the BBC one. He was wearing a sharply cut blue dress shirt, slender, tailored pants, and a long gray-black coat with a red interior. He had teased out his hair a bit and made sure it curled. In many ways, it was a perfect costume while not being a costume at all. And it was obviously intentional, directed at her.

Good resume," he said, not sounding all that impressed. "But what's he like?" Oh, God. This conversation was going to go on.

What do you suppose those women are after but the same thing as the chaser—the desire to gain their own value from the number and fame of the men they conquer? Only it's one step phonier, because the value they seek is not even in the actual fact, but in the impression on and the envy of other women.

He sat looking at her. She waited to see the derisive smile, but it did not come. The smile seemed implicit in the room itself, in her standing there, halfway across that room.

He borrowed from others in order to make an impression on others. There's your actual selflessness. It's his ego that he's betrayed and given up. But everybody calls him selfish.

Noticia es lo que excite más al mayor número de gente. Lo que les va a impresionar y dejar atontados. Cuanto más atontados, mejor, siempre que haya suficientes»

no sentiste nunca la impresión de que de niño te habían prometido algo, y luego te miras y piensas: Entonces no sabía que me sucedería todo eso, y te das cuenta de que todo es extraño, y ridículo, y un poco triste a la vez?»

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McConnell raised his hand like a traffic cop and said, "You must be under the mistaken impression that I care.

Sometimes you get a feeling about someone the minute you meet them. You just know who they are, and what they're all about.

I had decided early on that if I couldn't dress elegant, I'd dress memorable.

If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.

From what he could see she had the legs of a much younger woman. Certainly not what he would have expected in the way of Unitarian legs.

No one seemed to realize calculating sums requires only the most basic machinery and good concentration. Poetry is far more difficult. And palindromes, with their perfect, satisfying taste: Draw a level award! Yet it is always the thin gray grocery sums that make an impression.

That's a tarantula,' he said. 'You got to watch out for them suckers. They can jump four feet. If they get you, you go crazy. It's a special kind of poison' This I didn't believe. I never could figure out why men thought they could impress a woman by making the world out to be such a big dangerous deal. I mean, we've got to live in the exact same world every damn day of the week, don't we?

Ishtar could move with the silence of a cloud, and her leaps were so effortless they gave the impression of levitation. When she was feeling surly, she clumped. Ellen never understood how one dainty eight-pound cat could walk like an elephant, but Ishtar could, and often did.