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Quotes About Impression

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.
~ Unknown
The conscious generates ideas and impresses these ideas on the subconscious; the subconscious receives ideas and gives form and expression to them.
~ Neville Goddard
A change of impression results in a change of expression.
~ Neville Goddard
Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door.
~ Neville Goddard
People," he said, "talk about eyes and mouths as if they had something to do with the way other people think and behave. Only bits of the body, aren't they? Like navels and knees and toenails. Arrangements.
~ Ngaio Marsh
some things, most things in my experience, are more vivid when you haven't seen them
~ Niall Williams
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
they looked 'like a well-lit-up street', nine miles long.
~ Unknown
It doesn't look poor. The place looks
~ Unknown
What kind of car did Michael Honeycutt, banker, drive? What did he look like, how did he sound? I wanted to see him, to weigh the fabric of his suit, smell his cologne, judge his haircut, watch his body language, listen to the way he shaped his vowels.
~ Nicola Griffith
In my Armani suit I cut through the crowd like a hammerhead among trout.
~ Nicola Griffith
I have a strange kind of face; people trust me. More than that, they see in my face what they want to be there.
~ Nicola Griffith
Saying what made people in power think well of you was as much a habit for Breguswith as showing her curves was for Gwladus.
~ Nicola Griffith
She felt once again Angharad's breath on her cheek-Red is your colour-and that first cool kiss of the dream lake.
~ Nicola Griffith
For a moment Peretur could not speak, only sit with sensation flickering up and down her belly and back, like a school of fish swimming in and out of the light.
~ Nicola Griffith
When I saw her come in that night with you, I said to myself, Now there's a handful, because I thought she'd be snooty, you see. It was the way she carried her head.
~ Nicola Griffith
If a lord was frightening, a noble lady was terrifying.
~ Nicola Griffith
Quand on veut plaire dans le monde, il faut se résoudre à se laisser apprendre beaucoup de choses qu'on sait par des gens qui les ignorent.
~ Nicolas de Chamfort
I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.
~ Norman Rockwell
What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable.
~ Ntozake Shange
Even people who can't read are impressed by books.
~ Octavia E. Butler
It was like pointillism: Stand too close, and it makes no sense. Step far enough back, and you can see it. Maybe.
~ Unknown
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes