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Quotes About Impression

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
~ Unknown
Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
~ Unknown
What do you want want to be remembered for?" she asked tartly. He slowly shook his head. "I just want to be remembered.
~ Lorraine Heath
You look beautiful." "Anyone can appear beautiful in the shadows.
~ Lorraine Heath
This time James Swindler strode into the room. It had always irritated Jack that Swindler had the uncanny knack to give the impression he belonged, regardless of the surroundings. He'd probably look comfortable strolling through Buckingham Palace.
~ Lorraine Heath
Christians who take without distinction, as divinely inspired, every spontaneous impression and every more or less developed interior reaction of their own spirit face to face with the divine Word are in greater danger than anyone else of stifling the Spirit by confusing him with their own unconscious caricature.
~ Unknown
Clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
~ Louisa May Alcott
He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.
~ Louise Penny
She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were.
~ Louise Penny
Senator John Kennedy on Nancy Pelosi, "She can strut sitting down!"
~ Unknown
Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.
~ Unknown
I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.
~ Luc Ferrari
Smoke was hanging over Buffalo like judgment.
~ Lucille Clifton
God as God is the sum of all human perfection; God as Christ is the sum of all human misery. … If God … is … abstract philosophy: … Christ … is … pure suffering - … what makes more impression on the heart than suffering? especially the suffering … of the innocent endured purely for the good of others ..?
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
back. So why am I so worried about making a first impression? I answer my own question: Because you only get to do it once. Every time after, you are only making up for what happened during that initial meeting.
~ Jodi Picoult
he would see this moment forever—one of life's gallery of pictures—
~ Jodi Picoult
Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? The harbor cold to the mating ships, And you have lost as you stand by the balcony With the forest of the sea calm and gray beneath. A strong impression torn from the descending light But night is guilty. You knew the shadow In the trunk was raving But as you keep growing hungry you forget. The distant box is open. A sound of grain Poured over the floor in some eagerness--we Rise with the night let out of the box of wind.
~ John Ashbery
Her mouth tasted of smoke and toothpaste and something feety that made my blood flare
~ John Banville
Pomieszczenie wygl?da?o tak, jak je zapami?ta?em. Albo wygl?da?o, jak gdyby by?o takie, jakim je zapami?ta?em, gdy? z regu?y wspomnienia dopasowuj? si? niezauwa?alnie do rzeczy i miejsc z odwiedzanej przesz?o?ci.
~ John Banville
Just because someone looks sky at night, doesn`t mean it is astronaut.
~ John Boyne
Es muy bueno fingiendo ser alguien que no es -le comenté después a Zoya en el vestíbulo, cuando esperábamos para felicitarlo, sin saber muy bien si con esas palabras pretendía o no halagarlo-. No sé cómo lo hace. - Yo sí -repuso ella, sorprendiéndome.
~ John Boyne
You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.
~ John Boyne
Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at a distance but unpleasantly up close. I
~ John Bunyan
The man with whom you are so impressed will beguile with that tongue of his twenty who do not know him.2 Do
~ John Bunyan