Quotes About Impression

Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you purse becomes your purpose.

She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen.

She smiled brightly on Mrs. West. "Who's your dressmaker, Mrs. West?" she asked, with a view to avoiding the woman all costs. Such extremes of fashion as the purple shift dress which Mrs. West was almost wearing was not for Phryne. She preferred her personality to supply the outrageous edge to her appearance, not her exposed bosom.

She is prettier than her picture had prepared me for, blond curls, big blue eyes, like a fake child that someone would make in order to convince people to have children.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

Miss Smith was not a nice person, but the bed she put us in was soft and clean, with smooth thin blankets and warm thicker ones.

I smiled. He looked like he was waiting

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.

Miss Strike. It's nice to see you again. It looks as if you turned out to be dangerous after all." "You remember." Kiki was impressed. "I would never forget a student," said Principal Wickham. "Particularly one with such unusual ambitions.

La impresión espartana que transmitía correspondería a su naturaleza o a su bolsillo.

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

He doesn't look like the type who's into cookies anyway.

What you remember... is not what they think you will remember, it is often not

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

A long boozy dinner in the East Village with people you need to impress. After dinner, more drinks down the street. After those drinks, more drinks at your hotel's rooftop bar. After that, hours on the sofa in your room staring at CNN, shaking, afraid to go to sleep because it will lead to waking up.

We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow," he says after a minute. Then, "Wow," again. I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.

What likely dazzled the Ambassador even more than her sophisticated facade was his sense that she was covertly angling toward something greater. "It's not what you are that counts," he famously declared, "but what people think you are.

Even if you lack social proof, if you have confidence and behave like you have social proof already, you are on the leading path to moving up your perceived value.

As if I were a calf at auction, Henry asked me to stand in profile. That night I was wearing knit pants, and my swelling outline must have been dramatic, but unable to see myself as others did, and curious but not offended by Henry's request, I turned forty-five degrees to the left. Across the room, the writer made an alarmed-sounding noise. Henry announced, to no one in particular, "You see?" The

The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I've ever met, he's the one who most impressed me. It's tough to listen to him. You gotta have patience. But you see how strong his mind is. Even now, he's one of the most intelligent people on the planet.

alcanzar momentos de asombro, y prestaremos especial atención a aquellos oradores que minuciosa y deliberadamente diseñan y ejecutan instantes deslumbrantes de los que quienes asisten a sus charlas siguen hablando años más tarde.

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.