Quotes About Impression

if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.

In French printer's jargon, cliche (which mimicked the sound of a mold striking molten metal) was a synonym for stereotype, which in turn evolved from the Greek for "solid impression." A stereotype was a printing plate that duplicated typography and that was used by the printer in lieu of the original. So a cliche is a word or phrase used over and over again in lieu of the original.

In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce a rhytmic farting.

People will see whatever they want to see. Parallax.

I you want people to judge you based on the inside, don't distract them from the outside.

bookshelves, which were full of what she thought of as "fake" books—the books were real enough but if Celia Baxter had read Thomas Pynchon or Samuel Beckett or even all—any!—of the Philip Roths and Saul Bellows lined in a row, she'd eat her mittens.

leading the way was his boss, Commander 'Dave' Carpenter, in a suit so sharp you could peel mangoes with it.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

Sir Julius, vain gregarious soul that he was, had made his career by impressing other people. It was a cruel fate that had given him for guardian a man whom the warm rays of his personality impressed no more than if they had been the cold beams of the moon.

It was a five-mile drive. I peeped out of my bedroom window as they came up the path together and my first impression was that they were very alike. They were the same height and had the same wavy grey hair. Later I changed my mind and decided that no two men could be more unlike.

For, no matter how often or how well a person is described, a verbal description can never convey an accurate picture of the lineaments, and the pigment, and the aura that make up the whole personality of a human being.

Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, 'You're so much nicer in real life.' I guess I come across as not nice.

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

It seems to work out that following anything you do, you are pretty much approached with versions of the last thing people saw you in.

I think when you're a fan of a book you do have your own little version of the characters and I hope that some people feel we are the versions they might have imagined.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

A vest, as a clothing item, always makes a statement, but depending on context, those declarations vary a great deal.

Even as a child I used to mimic veteran film actors of the time.

The way you carry your name is the vibe people get off it.

A scuffed up shoe on the red carpet or at a big premiere is never okay! It can really alter the vibe of a trendy look.

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr and Jeremy Piven where they just give you that vibe, 'This guy's going to play someone a little venal.'

Off the court, I'm a totally different person. I've heard people be like, 'Oh, so sweet, like a big ole teddy bear.' But I guess I still have that look on my face in a game. I guess I still have a vibe where it's intimidating.

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.