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Quotes About Impression

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
~ Joseph Conrad
I thought his memory was like the other memories of the dead that accumulate in every man's life,—a vague impress on the brain of shadows that had fallen on it in their swift and final passage. . .
~ Joseph Conrad
Mr Verloc was going westward through a town without shadows in an atmosphere of powdered old gold
~ Joseph Conrad
She left a lingering smudge of smoke on the sky, and two vanishing trails of foam on the water.
~ Joseph Conrad
I have the means to make myself deadly, but that by itself, you understand, is absolutely nothing in the way of protection. What is effective is the belief those people have in my will to use the means. That's their impression. It's absolute. Therefore I am deadly.
~ Joseph Conrad
General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down.
~ Joseph Heller
Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was
~ Joseph Heller
He was hounded incessantly by an impression of vital duties left unfulfilled and waited in vain for his responsibilities to overtake him.
~ Joseph Heller
It is well known, that when one side only of a story is heard, and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it, insensibly.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
You may have to repeat this drama of the mind many times before an impression is made, but the secret of impregnating the deeper mind is continuous or sustained imagination.
~ Joseph Murphy
There is nothing new about this. As within, so without, meaning according to the image impressed on the subconscious mind, so is it on the objective screen of your life. This procedure or technique is
~ Joseph Murphy
But your half-grin is the only image that comes clear. All the words lead to that
~ Joy Harjo
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
~ Judith Martin
Ralph arrived first. He's really fat. And he isn't even four years old. He doesn't say much either. He grunts and grabs a lot, though. Usually his mouth is stuffed full of something.
~ Judy Blume
Berman's foot measure. Then he turned it around and I put my right foot in. That's another reason why my mother thinks Mr. Berman is good at selling
~ Judy Blume
Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers.
~ Wallace Stegner
Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you.
~ Wallace Stegner
Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you. 8 Here is one thing that eventually struck me: March 19, 1938, a Saturday.
~ Wallace Stegner
It is never the thing but the version of the thing.
~ Wallace Stevens
Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty I feel to half the degree I feel it; and yet it is a great pleasure to seize an impression and lock it up in words: you feel as if you had it safe forever.
~ Wallace Stevens
We convince by our presence.
~ Walt Whitman
Do we impress people with ourselves, or with the Lord? Do we draw people to our teaching, or to the Lord? This is genuinely vital. It determines the value of all our work and labor.
~ Watchman Nee
Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!
~ Wendy Mass
He wore tight red slacks and a white shirt. His body, I could see, was impeccably shaped.
~ Wendy Rathbone