Top 100 Impress Quotes
#1. A person who plays the game knowing he will win, doesn't impress me as much as the person who plays the game even though he knows that he might lose.
N'Zuri Za Austin
#2. You are crazy!" whispered Meggie. "You're a total lunatic!"
But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. "So what? All writers are lunatics!
Cornelia Funke
#3. It's quite impressive. You must be skilled with a blade."
"I prefer the bow. Perhaps we could go for a hunt sometime. I could impress you with my very unladylike talents."
As soon as the words escape my mouth, I realize how it sounded and I flush deep crimson.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#4. In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
Scott Adams
#5. Gambling is a fascinating sport. When you are winning, you are like a human hurricane, nothing can stand in your way. You defy the Gods, or do you? In fact you impress them, as Bukowski said. When you are losing, you are an insignificant gimp.
Robert Black
#6. If you want to impress a lady, respect her, because respect is an impressive act itself
Nitin Yaduvanshi
#7. To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
#8. The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.
Eugene Habecker
#9. I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.
Jim Crace
#10. My impression is that life - a big word, I know - inflicts themes on a writer through certain experiences that impress themselves on his consciousness or subconscious and later compel him to shake himself free by turning them into stories.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#11. A dreamgirl, on the other hand, won't kill herself to impress anyone.
Sherry Argov
#12. You'll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.
Frank Sonnenberg
#13. I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.
Ozzy Osbourne
#15. The conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors] ... to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.
Richard M. Rorty
#16. We cannot impress our children with the fame of God's name if we are not impressed with him ourselves. If
Tedd Tripp
#17. Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#18. Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.
Mitt Romney
#19. To call either of us virgins would be ridiculous, yet emotionally that was just what we were. Fumbling in the dark and too eager, completely out of our depths and self-conscious, trying to impress and missing all the subtle nuances.
Sylvia Day
#20. Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
Anthony Holden
#21. When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening ... I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
Kathleen Norris
#22. Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.
Richard J. Foster
#23. It has never been my goal to impress anyone but myself. That has proven challenging enough.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
Daniel Craig
#25. To the eternal "Opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one," I just say, "Yeah, but not everybody's got ten thousand of them." It distresses me that the wit of this riposte so often fails to impress the asshole I'm talking to.
Robert Christgau
#26. I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.
Sean Hannity
#27. Actually Gabriel's an archangel," I corrected. "But otherwise, yes."
"Well, that explains why he's so hard to impress," said Xavier flippantly
Alexandra Adornetto
#28. How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?
James Wolcott
#29. To feel the joy of presence, do not try to express or impress.
Debasish Mridha
#31. I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.
Jason Isbell
#32. As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#33. I should take my shoe off my sweaty foot and shake it around to impress this guy.
Mimi Strong
#34. If we live behind a mask we can impress but we can't connect.
Donald Miller
#35. Good thing I was covered in chicken drippings, frosting and powdered cheese. I always did know how to impress a man.
Lola Dodge
#36. The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.
Cindy Crawford
#37. Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have ... to impress people that they don't like!"
Nothing to do w/ "books"
Just like the quote!
Will Smith
#38. Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.
Malcolm Forbes
#39. Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.
Will Rogers
#40. When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.
Henry Cavill
#41. Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that's because he's a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl.
Dr. Seuss
#42. With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#43. Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?
Karlheinz Deschner
#44. When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.
Gillian Jacobs
#45. To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.
DJ Quik
#46. The great part about getting older is you realize that you don't have to impress anyone else.
Ruth Cardello
#49. The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
Pope Leo XIII
#50. Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.
Derren Brown
#51. It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
Nigella Lawson
#52. There is no such thing as cool--follow your enthusiasms honestly. The few records you ever bought to impress stay in their sleeves...
Except for the Stone Roses' first one Ooooh lovely.
Joseph Galliano
#53. Keep a vigil on those who push you down always and leave them alone. Stay away from them so that you don't waste your precious time refuting them, trying to impress them or proving your point to them. Let them not occupy any free space in your mind.
Sanchita Pandey
#54. Then: I google "time-series visualization" and start work on a new version of my model, thinking that maybe I can impress her with a prototype. I am really into the kind of girl you can impress with a prototype.
Robin Sloan
#55. From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.
Franz Kafka
#56. I'd waited for this opportunity with Claudia for a long time - ever since elementary school when I tried to impress her on the monkey bars and woo her with my crayon drawings. But I couldn't have been with her any sooner. You can't expect someone to love a shadow.
Suzanne McKenna Link
#57. Even now, after a lifetime of human companionship, I am hard-pressed to understand fully mankind's fascination with those little marks that they so carefully impress on sheets of paper.
Sally Smith O'Rourke
#58. So guys who are otherwise sensitive and thoughtful say and do ridiculously dumb things to impress other guys. It's an enormous performance, but guys know that if they fail, they'll be ridiculed as sissies mercilessly.
Michael Kimmel
#59. I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me.
Lisa Unger
#60. I'm glad I'm not a woman trying to impress the opposite sex, Luke grunted. Kate shot him a quizzical look. Luke responded with one of his incongruous grins.
Maggie Brendan
#61. It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them.
Donald Miller
#62. My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.
Evgeny Morozov
#63. But there was nothing in the world that could turn me away from him. He could have murdered babies and laughed gleefully while he did it, and I would still have killed myself trying to impress him.
B.R. Sanders
#64. It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Orison Swett Marden
#65. Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. Trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.
Marissa Meyer
#66. There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always been easy to spend time with Mike, she suddenly realized that in the whirlwind of the past couple of weeks, she'd almost forgot how much she enjoyed it.
Nicholas Sparks
#67. The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
Marie De France
#68. He'd use this opportunity to impress Rick and show him that he did, in fact, have more to offer than just being a sexy skanktart. To show that he wasn't just a brainless bimfoon, that's when a bimbo breeds with a buffoon, resulting in a true, hot mess.
Kyle Adams
#69. With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims,
And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,
Who among them would try to impress you?
-Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (1966)
Bob Dylan
#70. There are much more important things than a man going to the gym. Of course they have to take care of themselves on a certain level, but it's not essential. I think men do it more to impress other men.
Stephanie Sigman
#71. His enthusiasm was exhausting and charming at the same time. He wanted to impress her, so she resolved to be impressed. It was a small enough thing to give someone.
James S.A. Corey
#72. The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#73. The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.
Mark Goulston
#74. Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#75. Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.
Mignon McLaughlin
#76. She is ... " Death turned her head, considering. "She is like a party dress I wear when I want to impress visiting dignitaries. Like your friend Betsy, I too am a Terrible Engine. I too have occasional need of awe. But between us, I think, there is no need of finery.
Catherynne M Valente
#77. I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.
Shia Labeouf
#78. Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.
John Cleese
#80. Don't do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident 'you' with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are 'you'. Be sincere, be authentic. That will be impressive enough.
Archibald Marwizi
#81. Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.
John C. Maxwell
#82. There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!
William Morris Hunt
#83. The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
Laozi
#84. It had seemed like a good idea at the time, a sure-fire way to impress this girl, who was as cute as hell but wound tighter than one of his father's antique clocks.
Ros Baxter
#85. There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls with his musical skills - which were nonexistent. In fact, his music was so awful that he might have discovered a new way to kill Strigoi.
Richelle Mead
#86. I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.
Alexandra Paul
#87. Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.
Ellen G. White
#88. If expectations are low, you can only impress people. But if expectations are there for you to be the leading guy, and you've been paid X amount of money, you're on a tightrope, and all of a sudden, you're looking down.
James Marsden
#89. Nothing said Clothes to Wear When You Want to Impress a Guy You Initially Shot Down, But Now You Realise You Like Him and Want to Get Him Back. Where was the outfit for that?
Kristin Walker
#90. The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#91. I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.
Edmund Hillary
#92. Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me ...
Anthony Bourdain
#93. Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.
Selena Gomez
#94. We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better ... we never get satisfied.
George Harrison
#95. The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.
Herbert Hoover
#96. Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.
Richard Branson
#97. You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.
Bruce Ellis
#98. Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.
Matisyahu
#99. Sometime rhetoric was just
another way to lie and impress persons,
and he knew this
Haidji
#100. It was well to impress one's enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one's friends remembered it as well.
Robin Hobb
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