Quotes About Impression

People are sheepish when they approach me.

El contraste entre un lujo exagerado y una exagerada miseria es lo que impresiona antes que nada.

It was at this time that he devised the idea of having characters reappear from novel to novel, and the first novel to use this technique was Le Père Goriot in 1834. The idea may seem simple now to modern readers, but having characters reappearing in novels over a time period creates an impression as though they have lives of their own.

The elder, Mademoiselle Virginie, was the very image of her mother. Madame Guillaume, daughter of the Sieur Chevrel, sat so upright in the stool behind her desk, that more than once she had heard some wag bet that she was a stuffed figure.

when he smiled, displayed a set of white teeth which would have done credit to a shark.

For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich may be the background, in the first rough sketch of each portrait, yet with every added stroke of the brush, with every tiny readjustment of the "values," with every modification of the chiaroscuro, the eyes looking out at you grow more disquieting?

And, judging from Dame Jessamine's serene and smiling face, he had succeeded in removing completely the terrible impression produced by her husband's parting words, and in restoring to what she was pleased to call her mind its normal condition, namely that of a kettle that contains just enough water to simmer comfortably over a low fire.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

No sé si usted ha sufrido una impresión semejante; pero cuando ella me extendió la mano y nos miramos, sentí que por ese contacto tibio, la espléndida belleza de aquellos ojos sombríos y de aquel cuerpo mudo, se infiltraba en una caliente onda en todo mi ser.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information.

Even so, it was a goodish yarn, with plenty of derring-do, and I added some derring-didn' t-really-but-it-sounds-good, just to keep up her glowing opinion of me.

People look at you a certain way and somehow you wind up being that way.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

Under a sky the color of judgment

My name is Kilimanjaro West," he said, and something in the way he spoke that name made the crowded 'lectrovan fall electrically quiet. "Pleased to meet you all.

And the names drew about themselves a nimbus of quality, of good and bad and color and weight and hardness, a state of existence to come, a state of existence that was and a state of existence that had been.

He is a gross man-mountain balanced on strangely tiny feet. Not fat, vast.

If that woman looks like a million dollars and puts it right in your face, that one you get away from," R.D. told him. "That one in the corner who is quiet? That's the one you go after.

Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition.

those lucky enough to have it included in their tours do not soon forget the the graceful, delicate mosaics

Of course, the way Ramos had acted probably made it seem like I was his girlfriend, but did they have to think I wasn't his type? At all?

Second, you should look for the irrational, the bizarre, the elements that do not fit… Have you ever felt that you were getting close to something that didn't seem to fit any rational pattern, yet gave you a strong impression that it was significant?

This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.