Quotes About Impression

One could understand Judge Wilk's first impression, an impression he would never rise above despite all evidence to the contrary.

A un hombre se le empieza a comprar en veinticuatro horas; el resto lo negocias en diez minutos más.

Hola. No te había visto. ¿Vives aquí? —me esmero tanto en parecer casual que de pronto no sé si parezco pendejo.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of supernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. I

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.

If she'd ever hoped to impress Amon Byrne with her newly acquired glamour and beauty, that chance was gone forever. He'd seen her in every kind of ugly.

He was wearing a plain white oxford unbuttoned over a T-shirt, but something about the way they fit made him look put together, like an Abercrombie model (well, like an Abercrombie model who had remembered to put on a shirt that morning).

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child. (on Liszt)

It's hard for me to believe that I will die. Because I'm bubbling in a frigid freshness. My life is going to be very long because each instant is. The impression is that I'm still to be born and I can't quite manage it.

Sou como você me vê. Posso ser leve como uma brisa ou forte como uma ventania. Depende de quando e como você me vê passar.

A veces tengo la impresión de que escribo por simple curiosidad intensa. Es que, al escribir, me entrego a las sorpresas más inesperadas. Es a la hora de escribir que muchas veces me vuelvo consciente de cosas, de las cuales, siendo inconsciente, antes no sabía que sabía.

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

Astronomers saw me that way. "Cliff, he's not much of an astronomer, but what a computer hacker!" (The computer folks, of course, had a different view: "Cliff's not much of a programmer, but what an astronomer!" At best, graduate school had taught me to keep both sides fooled.)

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.