Quotes About Impression

They had been nice to her, that was the surprising thing. She though they'd be cutting and they were kind. Welcoming.

Seemed like no matter how much money people had, they were desperate to have more, desperate to look good compared to everyone else. Why bother to impress when all anyone else cared about was how impressive THEY were?

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

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.

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story

No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!

Impression forms opinion, opinion deforms truth!

It was not what he expected from a foulmouthed flower of bohemia, but he had a feeling there was both more and less to her than that.

there was a general impression of imminent catastrophe and red lipstick.

amateur magician himself, he had first seen Joe performing at the St. Regis for his classmate at Horace Mann, Roy Cohn, and had been impressed enough by Joe's natural movements, his solemnity, and his flawless presentations of the Miser's Dream, Rosini's Location, and the Stabbed Deck to insist that Joe be engaged to baffle his

When Ellie shook hands, Gennaro said in surprise, "You're a woman." "These things happen," she said, and Grant thought: She doesn't like him, either.

M? impresioneaz? efortul,nu obiectul.S? cer ceva rar È™i valoros ar însemna s? transform devotamentul în obligaÈ›ie.

a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Jamie Mai was tall and strikingly handsome and so, almost by definition, had the air of a man in charge—until he opened his mouth and betrayed his lack of confidence in everything from tomorrow's sunrise to the future of the human race.

When he spoke to people in the flesh, he could never tell what had put them off, his message or his person.

does the novelty and power of this sort of radical noticing impress women as much as men? I tend to doubt it.)

My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.

Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?