Quotes About Impression

I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.

I felt his eyes go over my body in my wet dress.

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

How does it happen that in life as in literature, rebellion, however pure, has something false about it, whereas resignation, however tainted with listlessness, always gives the impression of authenticity

For that little incident had impressed the three women more than might be supposed. It remained as a goblin footfall, as a hint that all is not for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and that beneath these superstructures of wealth and art there wanders an ill-fed boy, who has recovered his umbrella indeed, but who has left no address behind him, and no name.

Appearing thus late in the story, Cecil must be at once described. He was medieval. Like a Gothic statue.

He looked at her as she stood by the pool's edge. She was got up smart, as she phrased it, and she reminded him of some brilliant flower that has no leaves of its own, but blooms abruptly out of a world of green.

A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Mr. Hunt was in sympathy with the methods we ourselves were in the habit of using when we painted butterflies and seaweeds, placing perfectly pure pigments side by side, without any nonsense about chiaroscuro.

The room is full of you! — As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something in the air, intangible, yet stiff with meaning, struck my senses sick!—

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Ron fut frappé par le contraste qui régnait entre les coulisses de la justice avec leurs cages à barreaux d'arrière-cour et la solennité très digne de la salle du tribunal. Le public voyait l'édifice, pas les communs.

A slide rule always impresses, giving to the bystanders a feeling that the user thereof knows what he's about and will shortly come up with the answer.)

I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.

His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.

A man's attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, show what he is.

A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both.

It's not what you wear - it's how you take it off.

Your first judgement of a person should never be your last.

There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

There were people who got me very involved in politics. But then there was also a book. It was a trilogy, a biography of Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher, which made a very deep impression on me and gave me a love of political biography for the rest of my life.

If you find me charming, it means that right now you're in a good mood, nothing more.

The eggs taste like clouds. Like spun gold.