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Quotes About Impression

I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
~ Anais Nin
When he first stepped out of the car and walked towards the door where I stood waiting, I saw a man I liked. In his writing he is flamboyant, virile, animal, magnificent. He's a man whom life makes drunk, I thought. He is like me.
~ Anais Nin
Every room is painted a different color. As if there were one room for every separate mood: lacquer red for vehemence, pale turquoise for reveries, peach color for gentleness, green for repose, grey for work at the typewriter.
~ Anais Nin
For the writer the conscious mind may be the great inhibitor, the great censor. This conscious mind is created by social mores, education, environment, family pressures, and conventions. For creativity it is necessary to work with the unconscious which accumulates pure experience, reactions, impressions, intuitions, images, memories—an unconscious freed from the negative effect of societal evaluations. The conscious mind can only act later as critic, selector, discarder.
~ Anais Nin
He spotted Jill sitting about thirty feet away, face tipped toward the sun, her straight brown hair tucked behind one ear and slanted across her neck. And Ben decided that when her mouth wasn't full of tuna salad, she was sort of pretty.
~ Andrew Clements
It's not just what you've got, but also how you package it.
~ Andrew Hunt
The more I understand and contemplate Jesus' surrender of Himself for me, the more do I give myself again to Him. The surrender is a mutual one: the love comes from both sides. His giving of Himself makes such an impression on my heart, that my heart with the self-same love and joy becomes entirely His.
~ Andrew Murray
I absolutely look at people's bookshelves. And I have some judgment. I mean, they're openly showing you themselves.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
The letter is in German; the university is under the impression Arthur Less is fluent in German, and Arthur Less's publisher, who recommended him, is also under this impression. So is Arthur Less. 'With God's happiness', he writes back, 'I accept the pedestal of power', and sends it off with a flush of pleasure.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
An artist's impression of what it would look like if Mr Big Nose's nose exploded.
~ Andy Griffiths
So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.
~ Andy Warhol
I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.
~ Andy Warhol
she suddenly looks different to Olympia, physically different, as though a portrait has been alterred. And Olympia thinks that possibly such adjustments might have to be made for everyone she knows. Upon meeting a person, a sketch is formed, and for the life of the relationship, however intimate or not, a portrait is painted, with oils or pastels or with black ink or with watercolor, and only at a persons's death can the portraits be considered finished. Perhaps not even at the person's death.
~ Anita Shreve
Carma, Here are the Pants and a little sketch I made of Leo. From memory, not from life. (And no, I'm not thinging of him day and night. God.) Funny hair, huh? He did not realize I was in his class. I think I'm making a big impression around here. Love you, Len
~ Ann Brashares
Jessica Ramsey sat next to me, a mystery. I kept looking at her long legs. Maybe she was a dancer or a gymnast or something. Of course, I looked at her face too. Jessica's eyes were huge and dark. Her lashes were so long I wondered if they were fake. Probably not, if her mother was anything like mine, and I decided that was a distinct possibility since Jessica wore glasses and didn't have pierced ears either.
~ Ann M. Martin
Kristy smirked at me.
~ Ann M. Martin
And now, Myriah went on, as if she and Gabbie were putting on a show. We will perform that oldy but goody, Blue Suede Shoes by Mr. Elvis Presley. Claudia was even more impressed. Apparently, Myriah and Gabbie knew an entire rock and roll song and she didn't. Furthermore, for years, Claudia had thought that the singer's name was Elbow Presley.
~ Ann M. Martin
He that is pleased with himself easily imagines that he shall please others. - On Alexander Pope
~ Samuel Johnson
He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.
~ Samuel Johnson
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Na?in na koji se kretao, njegov miris, na?in odevanja, sve su to postali kriterijumi na osnovu kojih ?e odsada pa zauvek procenjivati muškarce.
~ Sandra Brown
He wear a roo suit - grey-green dapple thing, ain't satisfy to be one ugly color, it be ugly twice.
~ Sandra Newman
The whole thing's illusion, Jacob, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.
~ Sara Gruen
It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.
~ Sarah Dessen