Quotes About Impression

Physical appearance is more straightforward—what you wear sends a pretty clear, established message about how you feel. For example, wearing old sweatpants and ratty T-shirts and having disheveled hair every day tells the world you've given up, while overdressing for every occasion and never missing your weekly haircut lets people know you are trying too hard.

You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.

Clint never could get into the split personality thing, acting and talking one way around family and friends, then turning into someone your own mama wouldn't recognize just to have a conversation with some white folks. He'd never seen the advantage to it. Once Clint had learned that all white people didn't smell like the Downy fabric softener he'd seen in those commercials, he lost the enchantment. He felt no urge to try to impress them.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Snudoo!" Bumblebee cheered. She lifted her little talons up and did a very good impression of something cute. Something more like a tamarin and definitely not like a HiveWing.

And then, more softly, but chiming from somewhere inside both of them: I wonder what she thinks of me.

a client is going to remember that one great idea a consultant proposes far more than the not-so-great ones. And

Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts, unusually lofty stilts, and staggered along at a most ungracious pace, with an occasional awkward lurch into colloquialism, giving a strikingly false impression of himself.

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

Japanese goldfish, With your gossamer tail, You are the loveliest creature I have ever seen. Japanese kitten, Put your tongue back in where it belongs And go away. I know exactly what you are thinking.

The prairie is one of those plainly visible things that you can't photograph. No camera lens can take in a big enough piece of it. The prairie landscape embraces the whole of the sky. Any undistorted image is too flat to represent the impression of immersion that is central to being on the prairie. The experience is a kind of baptism.

One encounter in particular stayed in my memory

All that light, instead of giving an impression of warmth and activity, merely exposed its emptiness in a deadening blaze.

Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house with an incredible smell?

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

I observed the woman I had been up until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling herself it wasn't fear - it was the wisdom of someone who knew what reality was.

Because a lady wearing high heels leaves deeper footprints than an elephant.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.