Quotes About Impression

Nothing he said could change what I think of you. I've had my mind made up about you for a long time… and it's all good.

Whoa, Melbourne. Where have you been hiding?" Trey strolled over to us and began liberally filling a cup with the fluorescent green punch. "You look badass. And hot.

can't write well enough to tell you how good it was.

ForJennyMcPhee I remember the first time I met Frank O'Hara. He was walking down Second Avenue. It was a cool early Spring evening but he was wearing only a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. And blue jeans. And moccasins. I remember that he seemed very sissy to me. Very theatrical. Decadent. I remember that I liked him instantly. -Joe Brainard, I Remember

He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle.

To attract men, I wear a perfume called ``New Car Interior.'

I remember a time when smoke filled the house. Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman's smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. All together these sounds made smoke. Uncle Darnell would say, "You can't remember that. You were two. Three, maybe." But I do. I still see, hear, and feel bits and flashes. The sounds of musical smoke.

I settled down in the more comfortable of the two chairs to bring myself up to date on how the mother country was getting along without me. Badly was my immediate impression, the main news amply justifying my self-imposed exile.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Our daily routine was soon working smoothly, and everyone gave the impression of being eminently fitted for his post. We constituted a little republic on board the "Gjöa." We had no strict laws. I know myself how irksome this strict discipline is. Good work can be done without the fear of the

When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness … it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to impress each other with, which eventually turned into listening to the music we actually liked.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.

The messenger is the message." Of

our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.

La respuesta tiene que ver, en parte, con un principio de la comunicación que, aunque es esencial, generalmente no se tiene demasiado en cuenta: aquello que mostramos primero modifica la forma en la que la gente percibe lo que presentamos después.

I needed to determine whether those reasons were genuine or mere justifications for my decision to stop there. So I asked myself the crucial question, "Knowing what I know about the real price of this gasoline, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice again?" Concentrating on the first burst of impression I sensed, I received a clear and unqualified answer. I would have driven right past.

I had been standing there rather stupidly, instead of taking my departure, as I should have done, for I may as well confess that I was astounded at the sumptuous beauty of the girl before me, who had hitherto cast not even a look in my direction. Now she raised her lovely, indescribable eyes to mine, and I felt a thrill extend to my finger-tips. Many handsome women have I seen in my day, but none to compare with this superb daughter of the West.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

[W]hen I hear or read a good line I can hardly wait to tell it to somebody else...