Quotes About Impression

What I have is surface. Grooming, good genetics, whatever. Whether you've rolled out of bed an hour ago without having had a shower for three days, or you're wearing a designer suit, there is a deep, perfect beauty to you that takes my breath away.

La prima impressione ci trova ben disposti, e l'uomo è fatto in modo che gli si possono far credere le storie più avventurose; ma queste si imprimono subito così tenacemente che guai a chi voglia rimuoverle o cancellarle!

Here too it's masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I'd gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

When any distress or terror surprises us in the midst of our amusements, it naturally makes a deeper impression than at other times, either because the contrast makes us more keenly susceptible, or rather perhaps because our senses are then more open to impressions, and the shock is consequently stronger.

Blue gives us an impression of cold, and thus, again, reminds us of shade. We have before spoken of its affinity with black.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.

What's left undone to-day, To-morrow will not do. Waste not a day in vain digression: With resolute, courageous trust Seize every possible impression, And make it firmly your possession; You'll then work on, because you must.

I find by this, how much an author injures his works by altering them, even though they be improved in a poetical point of view. The first impression is readily received. We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

I've got to show life as I see it.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

But for now, let's assume that you're properly impressed with words' significance, and therefore stand ready to move on to a related but somewhat more involved aspect of the subject . . . the application of language to the manipulation of reader feelings. Is that important? I won't kid you. It's the foundation stone on which you as a writer stand or fall.