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Quotes About Impression

I'd only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff
~ Sarah Dessen
Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn't know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.
~ Sarah Dessen
As the starstruck Lafayette later described his first glimpse of Washington, It was impossible to mistake for a moment his majestic figure and deportment; nor was he less distinguished by the noble affability of his manner. What a sweet memory. Still, it does get on my nerves how easy it is for tall people to make a good first impression.
~ Sarah Vowell
it does get on my nerves how easy it is for tall people to make a good first impression.
~ Sarah Vowell
If there was a crayon, and I was to put a label on it, I would call it dinosaur skin. -So B. It
~ Sarah Weeks
As a rule, she didn't like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.
~ Sarah Weeks
She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
~ Saul Bellow
Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
~ Saul Bellow
But how we love looking fine in the eyes of the world—how beautiful are the old when they are doing a snow job!
~ Saul Bellow
If you want to make a good first impression, don't jokingly complain about the traffic on the way over. Try to work into the initial conversation some positive thoughts and images. Any positivity works. If your positivity has some visual imagery, that is even better. As the old saying goes, people won't always remember what you said, but they almost always remember how you made them feel.
~ Scott Adams
This song came on that sounded unlike anything I had ever heard: an aggressive drum machine pattern, unusual-sounding electronic noises, and of course, on top of it all, that voice. It struck me immediately, so warm and beautiful: The song was "Running Up that Hill (A Deal with God)." It was like a soundtrack to the evening. 
~ Scott Heim
That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.
~ Scott Westerfeld
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 endeavor to efface them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He could not deny that the beauty, the youth, the gracefulness, of the countess had made some impression on him: but his nature was entirely averse to all empty gallantry, and his principles forbade any thought of more serious enterprises; so that his perplexity at this moment was in truth extreme. The fear of displeasing the countess, and that of pleasing her too well, were equally busy in his mind.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bundan anlad?m ki bir yazar ikinci bas?l??ta hikayesini de?i?tirirse eskisinden daha iyi ?ekle de soksa, yine de eserine zarar vermi? olur. Biz insanlar daima ilk izlenime de?er veririz. ?nsan, en inan?lmayacak ?eylere kanabilecek yarat?l??tad?r. Ama bir kez kafas?na bir ?ey yerle?ti mi, onu söküp atmak isteyenin vay haline!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oh, man is so transient that even where he is really certain of his existence, even where he makes the one true impression of his presence, in the memory, in the soul of his dear ones, even there must he disappear, be extinguished, and that so soon!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Shame upon him who can look on calmly, and exclaim, 'The foolish girl! she should have waited; she should have allowed time to wear off the impression; her despair would have been softened, and she would have found another lover to comfort her.' One might as well say, 'The fool, to die of a fever! why did he not wait till his strength was restored, till his blood became calm? all would then have gone well, and he would have been alive now.
~ Johann Wolfgange Von Gothe
Duncan would not have been impressed had he known all of that.He was hoping their first meeting would be their last.They were to become great friends,though.They just didn't know it yet.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.
~ John Barnes
Romney sounds like he wants to be the nice uncle in a sitcom, Santorum sounds like he wants to be a twelfth-century archbishop, Gingrich sounds like he wants to go to outer space, and Paul sounds like he came from there.
~ John Barnes
A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.
~ John Berger
expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de
~ John Brooks
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~ John Brooks
expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de la Vega.)
~ John Brooks