Quotes About Impression

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."

O pátio [da prisão] era cercado de entradas e saídas. Não dava a impressão de hermetismo, como se deveria esperar. É inevitável que se tenha uma ideia romântica de uma prisão, embora, como era o meu caso, não soubesse o que era o romantismo. Nem uma prisão, para ser sincera. Esta passava uma sensação de realismo exacerbada e destruidora; as ideias prévias, embora não as tivesse, ruíam.

The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual.

Emily swore and he was impressed; he'd never thought to string cocksuckingsonofabitch together in one sentence. He couldn't help himself; the snort of laughter escaped before he could hold it in.

There is a performative dimension to writing emails and cc'ing everybody, like 'Look at all the work I'm doing.' It's annoying

a confidence that comes out," Martin explained. "I think it's something the audience smells.

I touched my scalp where Sula had wrapped the cloth. It still burned, but it made me feel important. I'd been wounded in combat. Anyone could break a leg or dislocate a sholder, but how many people get shot? I could tell by the way Will was looking at me that he was impressed too and not a little bit jealous. I would have quickly traded the head wound, however, for a glass of clean water.

I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

Although my belief in the world returned to me, I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

A child certainly allows himself to be impressed by the grand talk of his parents," wrote Jung "but do they really imagine he is educated by it? Actually it is the parents' lives that educate the child – what they add by word at best serves only to confuse him.

He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.

Can I stay with the other angel, then? The blond." Thane? "Why?" he demanded. "Don't take this the wrong way, but I like him better than I like you." There was a right way to take that statement? Honesty was to be commended, and yet Zacharel suddenly battled an inexplicable need to shake her. "You cannot know who you like better. You only spent a few seconds in his company." "Sometimes a few seconds is all it takes." -Annabelle and Zacharel

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.

Biscuit growls. "Take one more step toward my girl, and you'll lose a foot." I'm impressed. And I'm jealous of a freaking dog. He's a hero, and I'm a zero.

People lie because they wish to impress those around them. I seek to impress no one. You would be wise to remember that.

Listening to you gives me the impression that you divide everything into two parts - things you believe, and things you don't believe. I look at the world differently - there are a few things I firmly believe, and a few things I don't believe at all, but in between there is a vast range of things I wonder about, and that's what makes life interesting.

You see what you want to see

He also has awesome hair.

Insisting that his writing did not offer a philosophy of life, Hardy claims that each poem was an 'impression', intensely subjective and evanescent.

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

Es asombrosa la cantidad de baratijas convencionales a las que recurrimos al expresarnos por impreso. La mayoría de los escritores asumen la expresión de quienes posan para el retrato de un pintor. Recorridos de la pose y el compromiso, escalón por escalón.

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.