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Quotes About Impression

Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be . . . scarier.
~ Nalini Singh
Oh," she said, putting her hand to her throat -- it was a suprisingly long, slender hand, in contrast to the roundness of her face.
~ Nancy Garden
The telephone is your theater, your stage. Your receiver is your curtain. When it goes up, make yourself a star.
~ Unknown
He didn't move back to allow me to walk by him, and so I had to brush heavily against him on my way out the door. I felt as if my body were metal to his magnet, and I had literally to pull away from him.
~ Nancy Pickard
The stories could be true, or they could be conjecture; people stuck stories to her like wet plaster. Into what position would they set?
~ Unknown
Anger is "a movement generated by decision" that "can be eliminated by decision." What these Stoic-inspired teachers are trying to teach is control at that pivotal first moment of decision—the "assent to an evaluative impression." It's that assent to an impression of having been cheated in the case of these young kids, that gets the impulse of anger going.
~ Unknown
Maybe she'd spoken of me to him but I was positive my grandmother had never mentioned tall-dark-and-snooty. I'd have remembered.
~ Nancy Warren
The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions
~ Naomi Oreskes
When posed to journalists, however, the loaded questions did the trick: they convinced people who didn't know otherwise that there was still a lot of doubt about the whole matter. The industry had realized that you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions, even if you actually knew the answers and they didn't help your case.
~ Naomi Oreskes
When posed to journalists, however, the loaded questions did the trick: they convinced people who didn't know otherwise that there was still a lot of doubt about the whole matter. The industry had realized that you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions, even if you actually knew the answers and they didn't help your case.41 And so the industry began to transmogrify emerging scientific consensus into raging scientific "debate.
~ Naomi Oreskes
A picture is worth a thousand words.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who receive the most images into their memories have the most lively imaginations.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Giving a girl the impression that girlhood is an extended bounce on Barney's knee is like prepping a young gazelle for life on the Serengeti by dipping it in cream.
~ Natalie Angier
with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.
~ Natalie Babbitt
For is not a Book the most reliable of Companions--and generally among the most stimulating as well? No need to worry about amusing or pleasing or making a good impression on a Book, when its only purpose is to entertain and, perhaps, instruct. And if it should fail in that purpose, one can merely return it to its shelf, without so much as a by-your-leave and no occasion for anxiety about its wounded Pride, either.
~ Unknown
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
~ Neal Shusterman
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
~ Neil Cavuto
We shared a piece of Poncho's apple pie, and I told Poncho about PureTone. Like all serious musicians, he is depressed by the quality of sound the people's music id delivered in today. That is the impression I have gotten from every Musician I have met. Everyone. After he heard PureTone, Ben Bourdon, one of Ben Young's caregivers asked me if I was making war on Apple. I said, "No. I'm waging heavy peace.
~ Neil Young
good from far but far from good as the saying goes
~ Neil Young
Incited. That was it, the guidingprinciple of her life in Copenhagen. She was incited to make an impression, a voluptous impression. She was incited to inflame attention and admiration. She was dressed for it, subtly schooled for it. And after a little while she gave herself up wholly to the fascinating business of being seen, gaped at, desired.
~ Nella Larsen
I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?" He shook his head hurriedly, that he'd always thought that. "Fellas have all the fun 'n she just sees one right after another, so it seems like HE'D remember her, better 'n SHE'D remember him, only it works the other way around. I ain't forgot one single fella, all these years. But I bet there ain't TWO 'd know me from a big of bananas this minute.
~ Nelson Algren
Out of the motorcar (I learned later that this majestic vehicle was a Ford V8) stepped a short, thickset man wearing a smart suit.
~ Nelson Mandela
Sabe o que é que o homem mais repara na mulher? Se é limpa. Homem não perdoa a mulher suja! aurora
~ Nelson Rodrigues