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Quotes About Impression

I should be used to the way Americans dress when traveling, yet it still manages to amaze me. It's as if the person next to you had been washing shoe polish off a pig, then suddenly threw down his sponge saying, "Fuck this. I'm going to Los Angeles!
~ David Sedaris
My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.
~ David Sedaris
I thought about this for days, just as I thought of the special-ed teacher I met in Pittsburgh. You know, I said, I hear those words and automatically think Handicapped, or, Learning disabled. But aren't a lot of your students just assholes? You got it, she said. Then she told me about a kid - last day of class - who wrote on the blackboard, Mrs. J____ is a cock master. I was impressed because I'd never heard that term before. She was impressed because the boy had spelled it correctly.
~ David Sedaris
Did you just tell that lady you're a doctor?" Amy would ask. "A little," I'd say.
~ David Sedaris
I should be used to the way Americans dress when traveling, yet it still manages to amaze me. It's as if the person next to you had been washing shoe polish off a pig, then suddenly threw down his sponge saying, "Fuck this. I'm going to Los Angeles!" On
~ David Sedaris
She looked to me like a librarian is supposed to, slightly stern, with a longer-than-average neck.
~ David Sedaris
At around five, I took the L home. A woman near me had a three-year-old child on her lap, a girl, who looked at me and said, "Mommy, I hate that man.
~ David Sedaris
For an American, though, Australia seems pretty familiar: same wide streets, same office towers. It's Canada in a thong, or that's the initial impression.
~ David Sedaris
Readers will easily recognize the cover of a book they've read, but in a cafe that man over there, is that...is that...well, it's hard to tell - doesn't he have long hair? - oh, he's gone.
~ Yann Martel
Quando si vede un arcobaleno si ha l'impressione di essere tra la primavera e l'estate.»
~ Yasunari Kawabata
He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'. Howard didn't much trust people like that, so full of one quality, like books with insistent covers.
~ Zadie Smith
line." King strode on in the direction Shurd had taken. Neale pondered a moment, perplexed, impressed, and grateful to his comrade. He heard remarks among the laborers and he saw the flagman Casey
~ Zane Grey
Characters you'll find difficult to forget (besides the two lead characters), include the astute Jim Traft, Sr., Molly's semi-outlaw brother Arch (Slinger) Dunn; faithful Andy Stoneham; kind-hearted Mrs. See; the rollicking cowboy, Curley Prentiss; the despicable villain, Hank Jocelyn; the supposedly deaf cook, Jeff Davis; Molly's embittered mother; Ring Locke, the range boss; and a host of other characters who play cameo parts.
~ Zane Grey
It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
For most people watching 'Aiyyaa,' what I am down South or what I have achieved does not matter. They are going to look at me as an actor who they will see for the first time.
~ Prithviraj Sukumaran
I have a really adaptable face, but when I am just being me, people always think I am younger than I am.
~ Jessica Raine
An Elias performance is worth the price of admission.
~ Elias
I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.
~ Allison Williams
I saw Al Pacino on the street once. That made me very nervous.
~ Matthew Broderick
One person who was interesting was Jello Biafra, who was - of all things - very professional!
~ Fred Armisen
Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.
~ Sabrina Bryan
If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.
~ Bob Schieffer
If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.
~ Pollyanna McIntosh
If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.
~ Bill Nighy