Quotes About Impressiveness

All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they're rather impressive.

China built a thirteen-thousand-mile wall several centuries before Christ, and it's still working.

Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd.

Professor Galiani listened and was impressed by her sincerity, by her unsettling tone, by the intense Italian of her sentences, by her skillfully controlled irony. She must have felt in Lila, I imagine, that elusive quality that seduced and at the same time alarmed, a siren power: it could happen to anyone, it happened to her, and

He told me, "You haven't earned a spot on my desk. When you do something worthwhile or impressive, I'll put your picture on my desk.

Anyone literate can take an implement in hand and make marks on a flat surface. Being a writer, however, seems to be a socially acknowledged role, and one that carries some sort of weight or impressive significance - we hear a capital W on Writer.

In the old days, even the most inconsequential people were impressive. You don't hear such stories these days, do you?

Don't worry. I won't send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It's the safest mode around me. (Savitar)

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

The moon is beautiful partly because we cannot reach it, (the sea is impressive because one can never be sure of crossing it safely. Even the pleasure one takes in a flower — and this is true even of a botanist who knows all there is to be known about the flower is dependent partly on the sense of mystery.

The French are not impressed by anything as banal as niceness.

I allowed silence to accumulate while I got my impressiveness together

Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

The most determining external influence on his style was unquestionably the old, so-called King James version of the English Bible. His language is saturated with its thought and phraseology. And as he is intimately acquainted with it in all its parts, so he is continually quoting it and constantly surprising us with fresh discoveries, in novel collocations, of its variety, beauty and impressiveness.

Alles, was gigantische Formen annimmt, kann imponieren, auch die Dummheit.

I kept hearing about this incredible guy called Tom Hardy. I started watching his work, and I was awestruck - he was amazing.

Yale and Princeton would bite their ivy-covered knuckles in jealousy over the red and gold bricks; tree-lined paths; sculptures; twee, twisting pathways; and Gothic spires.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

At the end of the day, my job is to win in impressive fashion.

To see somebody create something from nothing is incredibly impressive.