Quotes About Impression

You know people are going to think you like me if you hang around my locker." Pushing away from the locker, he swung his gaze back to me. "I do like you." Then he walked away as though the world still spun on its axis.

I blew it." "How'd you do that?" she asked. I gave her a quick rundown of all my most memorable moments, including the mascara fiasco. "Like he noticed," Bird said when I was finished. "Oh, he noticed. I've never had a guy look at me that hard before. He was probably trying to figure out if it was a birthmark, a tattoo, or if I was preparing for Halloween a few months early.

If one of his teammates asked about me, I didn't want his recommendation to be, "She has a great arm.

And if someone did remember them, someone besides me, that person's account would make them less real, because my memory of them would have to be corrected by facts, which are never considerate of what makes an impression, what stays in the mind after all these years, the very real images that grip me from the erased past and won't let go.

because my memory of them would have to be corrected by facts, which are never considerate of what makes an impression, what stays in the mind after all these years,

The jacaranda, for instance, is beautiful but not serious.

She turns and walks on to the plane and the red dress flips and swishes through the doorway, vanishing from his sight but burned on to his retina like a hot kiss.

I put on several different outfits. The advantage of not knowing who you are is you can attempt to be all things to all men … or women. My mother saw me always glancing in every mirror, every window; in the gleaming blades of knives. She said, "Jill is vain." She did not know I was looking to see who would be there this time.

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

As the light wavered into the rooms, they looked impossibly large with darkness, which seemed less still than it ought to be.

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.

She got herself a boyfriend she wants us to meet. He's studying chemistry. A senior. She said that 3 or 4 times on the phone. Senior. Like it's supposed to mean something to me, as long as I been grown. Senior ain't nothing but a year. Young man's distinction.

the stylish simplicity of the food service made a lasting impression on me. They had no printed menu because there were just three entrees: Maine lobster, steak, and roast duckling. Years later I recalled that spare bill of fare in my first motto for McDonald's—KISS—which meant, "Keep it simple, stupid." Another

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

You know, Martin, most of us learn in grade school that saying things like 'I'm so lonely' doesn't impress women.

Twirling the Jeep into the drive, Josie stopped next to a Mercedes.

When I was young, I believe I met Nicolas Cage. I think I was probably eight, and I remember seeing him at somebody's house - it was an event, and he happened to be there.

Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'

All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

I'm good at caricature.

When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.

My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.

I've met some of the most famous celebrities in the world but Michael Phelps was the first person I've ever met with whom I was totally star-struck.