Impression Quotes

#1. It's better to remain silent and give the impression of being foolish then to speak and remove all doubt. - Author: Rami Belson

#2. I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you. - Author: Suzanne Collins

#3. Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression in which sadness was perhaps actually eclipsed by exhaustion. - Author: Marcel Proust

#4. He got the impression she might be a bit fucked up, but that had always been his type. The kind that would break your headlights, egg your house, spray paint ASSHOLE on your garage door. - Author: C.D. Breadner

#5. The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world. - Author: Sherrod Brown

#6. Your image is your brand and you have only one opportunity to make that first impression. Choose to make a positive first impression. - Author: Cindy Ann Peterson

#7. What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say. - Author: T.F. Hodge

#8. The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it. - Author: Katherine Mansfield

#9. My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters. - Author: Allison Pearson

#10. I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in nonviolence as the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. - Author: Mark Shepard

#11. Make an effort with tenacity to make real impact that works and don't just create an impression with deception - Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food. - Author: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

#13. I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious. - Author: Alafair Burke

#14. Satan can move in the supernatural realm, too, because he is a spirit being, as is God. You've got to be able to know whether a vision, dream, impression, or suggestion is from God or Satan. Those suggestions that do not line up with the Word are of the devil. - Author: Kenneth E. Hagin

#15. Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly. - Author: Charles Webster Hawthorne

#16. Every person is bound to make the first impression with the help of words - Author: Bhavik Sarkhedi

#17. Lydia shook her head. "This is my life. Getting yelled at in a Walmart parking lot on a Friday night by somebody doing a bad impression of PG-13 fart-joke-movie comedian. - Author: Jeff Zentner

#18. It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression. - Author: Nahisha McCoy

#19. I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee."
"Yeah," I said. "But I dont want to be like all those other werewolves, you know?"
"Says the werewolf named Kitty."
"It's too late to change my name now," I grumbled. - Author: Carrie Vaughn

#20. It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked. - Author: Martin Freeman

#21. On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it. - Author: Albert Einstein

#22. It gave Boy 412 the impression that Aunt Zelda had walked into a large patchwork tent and had just, that very minute, poked her head out of the top to see what was going on. - Author: Angie Sage

#23. He gave such a vulnerable impression. He resembled the leaf that a little boy strikes down from its branch with a stick, because its singularity makes it conspicuous. - Author: Robert Walser

#24. The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an overarching logic, but by association; the impression that prose gives is that it can go anywhere in a manner wholly unpredictable. - Author: Stanley Fish

#25. Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence. - Author: Leonard Mlodinow

#26. Gregory: Well, Dane, you could share your impression with my alma mater instead.
Dane: It's a challenge.
Gregory: Glad to hear that hasn't changed. And which part do you find the most challenging?
Dane: Living up to your reputation. - Author: Anne Osterlund

#27. When he moves, he gives the impression of somebody leaning into the wind, or charging a hill, as if the world with all of its troubles can be tamed if only enough force and energy are brought to bear. - Author: Michael Ian Black

#28. When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. - Author: Alice Hamilton

#29. If you run away from trouble, it always follows.'
Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying. - Author: Tanith Lee

#30. Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart. - Author: William Jewett Tucker

#31. Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process. - Author: Max Kozloff

#32. Indeed, one had the impression that even for the sufferers the frantic terror of the early phase had passed, and there was a sort of mournful resignation in their present attitude toward the disease. - Author: Albert Camus

#33. My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind. - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#34. [The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture. - Author: Sigmund Freud

#35. A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better. - Author: Ted Cruz

#36. You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock.
He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling. - Author: Christine Feehan

#37. When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!'
Christ what an image. - Author: Louise Rennison

#38. Can I help you? She was middle height and very pretty. He had an overall impression of fine bones and white linen, topped with a wealth of curly brown hair in a sort of half-tamed chignon. And in the middle of it all, the most extraordinary pair of light eyes, just the color of well-aged sherry. - Author: Diana Gabaldon

#39. People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out. - Author: Michael Bassey

#40. As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me. - Author: Harper Lee

#41. The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#42. Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant! - Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#43. When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia. - Author: Jean-Claude Duvalier

#44. Immeasurably imperfect it was, but false the impression could not be, for she saw with the eyes made for seeing, and saw indeed what many men are too wise to see. - Author: George MacDonald

#45. No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. - Author: William James

#46. Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda. - Author: Martin Amis

#47. There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient. - Author: Agnes Repplier

#48. I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world. - Author: Taylor Momsen

#49. Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future ... But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride. - Author: Winston Churchill

#50. So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered. - Author: Jeffrey Jones

#51. You guys like impressions? Why? - Author: Bo Burnham

#52. Expression is the truth, impression is a lie. - Author: Krishna Sagar

#53. I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be. - Author: Mariella Frostrup

#54. The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower. - Author: Bankei Yotaku

#55. Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?'
'Er ... yes.'
'But he's not actually thinking?'
'Er ... no.'
'So ... he just gives the impression of thinking but really it's just a show?'
'Er ... yes.'
Just like everyone else, then really,' said Ridcully - Author: Terry Pratchett

#56. No doubt this works well enough for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I can readily see that 'The Selfish Gene' on its own, without the large footnote of the book itself, might give an inadequate impression of its contents. - Author: Richard Dawkins

#57. Of course I'd like children. But I have to get over my impression that being pregnant is like popping corn. You expand and expand until you pop. - Author: Markie Post

#58. He looks up at the sound of the gravel crunch on the driveway, and I catch a flash of impression, a reclusive animal surprised in his lair by the arrival of the hunters. - Author: Ben H. Winters

#59. The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did. - Author: Jesse Eisenberg

#60. Graphic designers judge a cover by its book. - Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#61. 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. - Author: Anais Nin

#62. I think back to my banter with Cash about sexual harassment. I don't doubt he pushes the boundaries, but never once did I get the impression he might force himself on me or make unwanted advances. I just hope to God he doesn't know that his advances aren't unwanted. I just wish they were. - Author: M. Leighton

#63. I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well. - Author: Brittany Snow

#64. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth. - Author: Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

#65. In my case, if I start out by thinking about the plot, things don't go well. Small points, such as my impression of what is likely to occur, do come to mind, but I let the rest of the story take its own course. I don't want to spend as long as two years writing a story whose plot I already know. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#66. I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them. - Author: Dorothy Hodgkin

#67. Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to. - Author: Sydney Schanberg

#68. When I meet somebody I want to leave a better impression than when I got there. - Author: Tim Tebow

#69. He remained where he was, looking unsure of what to do. His eyes were dark pools of emotion, giving me the impression he was holding back tears. It made my heart ache for him. - Author: Marita A. Hansen

#70. Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy. - Author: Katie Hopkins

#71. You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make. - Author: C.S. Lewis

#72. Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it. - Author: Harper Lee

#73. It gives you the impression that every day is Sunday. - Author: Marlene Dietrich

#74. She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway. - Author: Richard Masur

#75. When you make a mistake, don't make a second one
keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table. - Author: George Horace Lorimer

#76. From the instant of our first meeting I judged him so, though it could be said that I was prejudiced. When one is standing naked on a slave-auction block in a wind cold enough to freeze a demon's backside, one is unlikely to have a fair impression of anyone. - Author: Carol Berg

#77. My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children. - Author: Jonas Gahr Store

#78. It's my impression that investment in Europe is done for the right reasons. Europe is a very good place to do business; it's a large market. - Author: Margrethe Vestager

#79. The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy. - Author: Ernesto Sabato

#80. 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! - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#81. I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable. - Author: Oscar Wilde

#82. It doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming. - Author: Fredrik Backman

#83. My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil. - Author: Marina And The Diamonds

#84. The impression she left on others and her self-perception had been sewn into a whole so consummate that she could no longer tell how much of each day was defined by what was wished upon her and how much of it was what she really wanted.
--Three Daughters of Eve. - Author: Elif Shafak

#85. Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions ... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions. - Author: Malcolm Gladwell

#86. I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost. - Author: Arsene Wenger

#87. The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. - Author: Augustus William Hare

#88. The saint who is intimate with Jesus will never leave impressions of himself, but only the impression that Jesus is having unhindered way, because the last abyss of his nature has been satisfied by Him. - Author: Oswald Chambers

#89. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression. - Author: Jessica Brody

#90. I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times. - Author: Robert Guillaume

#91. Going through a tragedy leaves an impression on people's souls. Once you've had a loss, you learn to deal with it and move on, but you carry that hurt with you always" - Yara Silva 'Intrinsical - Author: Lani Woodland

#92. Try to leave an Impression on someone's Heart, rather than a Paper. - Author: Udayveer Singh

#93. I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice. - Author: Chance The Rapper

#94. Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them. - Author: Stendhal

#95. People have this impression that I'm this crazy Christian, but I'm really balanced. - Author: Cheryl James

#96. Why are you here?" I demanded, but the PM only smirks again.
"You've been a very bad girl, Ms Blakely."
I ease closer. "You're under the impression that I care, Ms Petrovic. - Author: Ally Carter

#97. I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch. - Author: Anton Chekhov

#98. She gave the impression of smiling with difficulty, possibly for fear of getting wrinkles. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#99. You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.
[Francesca] 'We did.'
V: 'And he trusts you?'
F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets. - Author: Blake Charlton

#100. I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains. - Author: Gunter Grass