Quotes About Impression

I never believed Jacob was human. But sometimes, like a lot of predators, he did a decent impression of one.

He thought of the man he'd seen seconds

Everyone liked a clean-cut guy, and they tended to forget that appearances were deceiving. His

thirty-one thumbprints on the construction paper, so the class was very large

when we put on clothes, we're telling ourselves something, and we're communicating that something to every person we meet.

The truth was no way to make a good first impression.

When I was a wee little kid, remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

Cazaril trusted he appeared scholarly enough to fool the young ladies

I'm telling you now. Without knowing for sure if you sent them, or why, I was left to my own discretion. If you want me to bother you with every little detail that comes up, just say so. He shrugged. But I was under the impression that you wanted me to handle shit. Murray's face reddened with bluster. I do, damn it. They were shit, Trace explained. They've been handled.

They were in performance. They were performing their marriage at me.

She wore a lot of gray-green corduroy. She had been under the impression that it brought out her eyes, those shy stars.

Don't mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness.

In the stands, the audience was divided between booing and cheering. Half of them were upset that the read team had forfeited the race, but the other half were impressed to see a manticore punched.

My sister Beth is a very fastidious girl, when she likes to be, said Amy, well pleased at Beth's success. She meant `fascinating', but as Grace didn't know the exact meaning of either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good impression.

Watching him closely after he paid for the books and took the package into his hands, I saw his pupils dilate the way a diner's do when food is brought to the table.

Always on good terms with Rockefeller, Twain thought he deserved a fair hearing from the press and was sure he would make a good impression on the publishers.

Whatever his health problems, he gave an impression of rock-solid durability;

As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.

He appeared to Gustav like a caricature of a reserved English gentleman, with brilliantined white hair, a rosy complexion and a ridiculous little moustache, trimmed so close to his top lip, it resembled a worn-out nail brush.

I, for one, don't think anything about it at all," responded Hiram, bluntly. "He's either a dreamer or a skeesicks. His not coming back to us looks as if he had served his purpose in getting

George Adams, in his translation Occult Science—an Outline has rendered it as "mental image," "mental picture," "thought picture" or "idea" according to the context. Michael Wilson in his revision of The Philosophy of Freedom has preferred to keep to "mental picture.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don't count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages

Sometimes it seemed to him that the house had a bad wild life of its own; the impression of its evil lingered, in its name, in its atmosphere...