Quotes About Impression

One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

FDR had a certain charisma, at least in his first term, with the big grin, the cigarette holder at a jaunty angle, and the battered hat on his imposing head, but no other American president since then has had it except JFK - indeed, some of them have been positively anti-charismatic, like Gerald Ford, Carter, and the Bushes.

My great hope for my speck of time on this planet would be that I live and die, and that what I leave behind has made some kind of impression and has been for the better in terms of my family and friends and, in my case, public service.

You ask every conceivable question after Sept. 11 in terms of what more could have been done, what could have been done differently. My impression from working on these cases and investigations for almost nine years was that an awful lot of people were working over time to connect dots.

For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Successful state schools work because charismatic heads or teachers are terrific bluffers, giving the impression that they are to be feared while knowing in their hearts that they have no real power.

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.

For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Samantha Jennings sat next to him. Teachers thought Samantha was fantastic: always volunteering for stuff, neat uniform, glossed nails. She did all her diagrams with three different colored pens and covered her textbooks in wrapping paper so they looked extra smart. But

First thing I notice is that said arse is a peach.

When I was fifteen or sixteen I carried around in the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's 'Republic', front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful. How much I wanted an older person to notice me carrying it and be impressed, to pat me on the shoulder and say... I didn't know what exactly. from: 'The Examined Life, Philosophical Meditations

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness.

Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'

a preliminary sketch. Your experience tells you that. But

There was no real hearse. That was a soft-shell crab dream." She smiled faintly.

Un libro ti rimane addosso per una vita intera.

Looking back over our shoulders, the Cathedral looked so big, so strong, like from some movie.

Always behave as if you are the person you wish to be perceived as.

People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.

In my dating career, I had found that mothers seemed to like me; fathers did not. Period. So I tended to avoid contact with the dads. I assumed that this wasn't personal. Rather, it was simply the fact that I was a hormone-laden, male teenager with a fully functional penis, who happened to be in the presence of their daughters.