Top 100 Impression Quotes
#1. His cheekbones also gave his face a harsh character; but there was no harshness in the eyes which, looking at the world from under their tawny eyebrows, gave the impression of a man ever alert to greet a redeeming instinct in others but often disappointed.
James Joyce
#2. An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete ... Its motor consequences are what clinch it ...
William James
#3. People sometimes are under the impression that finding their property corners should cost as much as changing their oil or blowing out their sprinklers. What they don't realize is that land surveyors are required to stand behind their work for the rest of their lives.
Mark Mason
#4. Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier.
J.K. Rowling
#5. I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people who didn't really know why they were living.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#6. The first day, week and month of an employee's experience carries a lasting impression.
Scott Weiss
#8. No sale, no commission. No commission, no eat. That made an impression on me.
David Ogilvy
#9. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
Andrew Solomon
#10. Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys. It was to give an impression of composure, some self-assurance, and to counter the feminine appearance.
Carine Roitfeld
#11. If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.
John F. Carlson
#12. Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
Cynthia Ozick
#13. Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
Roberto Rossellini
#14. There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.
Siri Hustvedt
#15. Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.
Jerry Seinfeld
#16. My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Alvin Ailey
#17. For what it was worth, she got the impression that Niessa liked her, or at least approved of her, in the same way a chess-player approves of one of his pieces when it stays where it's been put and doesn't go wandering off all over the board.
K.J. Parker
#18. I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.
Todd Rundgren
#19. The impression of wood-grain ... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly.
Walter J. Phillips
#20. Sure, he'd kill, she didn't doubt that, but she got the impression he'd rather leave you maimed someplace so you could die nice and slow. While he watched and took detailed notes so he'd do better the next time.
Carolyn Jewel
#21. My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, "Those things that hurt instruct!" I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#22. Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.
Leo Tolstoy
#23. It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.
Ian McKellen
#24. If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.
Chris Hadfield
#25. Everything ungirt, artless, ardent, urgent about Louie was to the fore: all over herself she gave the impression of twisted stockings.
Elizabeth Bowen
#26. An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.
John J. Sirica
#27. I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!"
"You did!" she retorted. "And although I can't say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt!"
"Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments!
Georgette Heyer
#28. Instead of trying to still his fears he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come ...
George Eliot
#29. In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.
Warren G. Harding
#30. A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression" - from "The Art of Fiction
Henry James
#31. It is curious that this man who, even in my childhood, made such an impression upon me, who had such a crucial influence on the whole bent of my mind, and who perhaps has even cast his shadow over the whole of my future, still remains, even now, a complete enigma to me in many respects.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#32. A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#33. An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
Vijender Singh
#34. No one seemed to realize calculating sums requires only the most basic machinery and good concentration. Poetry is far more difficult. And palindromes, with their perfect, satisfying taste: Draw a level award! Yet it is always the thin gray grocery sums that make an impression.
Barbara Kingsolver
#35. I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
Carine Roitfeld
#36. Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear.
Krishna Saagar
#37. A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.
Martine Franck
#38. The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.
Joshua Reynolds
#39. Impression - I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it ... and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.
Claude Monet
#40. Gentlemanly behavior isn't just opening doors: to make an impression, you have to be concerned over a lady's needs at least as much as your own.
Suzanne Enoch
#41. I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.
Douglass North
#42. I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.
Marcel Duchamp
#43. The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression
Albert Einstein
#44. The afterlife looks different to every soul," he said, "depending on whatthey believe. For that guy, Egypt must've made a strong impression when he was young , maybe."
"And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife?" i asked.
Walt gave me a sad look. "Then that's what they experience.
Rick Riordan
#45. Angela Montgomery was in the hall, shadows and her own long black hair wrapping around her. Ash could see only her face, which gave the impression that she was a beautiful human Cheshire cat, come not to smile but to look deeply disdainful of everything.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#46. In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality.
James Joyce
#47. If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Sylvia Plath
#48. You know, Maude ... somebody meeting you for the first time
not knowing you were cracked
might get the wrong impression of you.
Preston Sturges
#49. The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
John D. Rockefeller
#50. Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.
John Barnes
#52. As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.
Patrick Lencioni
#53. In winter California became an older place, with secrets.
Nothing more distrusted in California than the impression of settledness.
That's what California is good for - dreaming of other places.
Pico Iyer
#54. GERRY
I would step on your face!
HACKENSACKER
That's quite all right, I rather enjoyed it.
GERRY
Twice!
HACKENSACKER
You made quite an impression.
Preston Sturges
#55. I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.
Gregory Maguire
#56. To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#57. Jas. I don't normally like Katie Steadman that much. She's OK but I get the impression she thinks I am a bit on the superficial side.
Anonymous
#58. My secretary stopped and got gas (Wednesday) for $2.67. (Yesterday at) the same gas station, she got gas again. It was $3.12, ... It has really gotten very, very restrictive to people. It's really hurting ... My impression, of course, is that they have certainly gone up more than they should have.
Andrew Spano
#60. One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
Gian Carlo Menotti
#61. I'm a gunfighter, Jim, not a demonologist." Sin moved past him so that he could burn the body o n the ground. "Nice Bones impression. Roddenberry would be proud.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. We were in that world of Negroes who are both servants and psychologists, aware that white people are so obsessed with their own importance that they will pay liberally, even dearly, for the impression of being catered to and entertained.
Malcolm X
#63. Look, I was an idiot. I didn't want people to think that I had a crush, so I decided to give everyone the impression that I truly, honestly hated Madison Harter. For no reason. Just thinking about this makes me want to punch myself in the eyeball.
Jesse Andrews
#64. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making.
C.S. Lewis
#65. A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.
John Berger
#66. By using impossibly complicated language, school reformers create the impression that
Anonymous
#67. Compare constantly, lines and angles ... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?
William Morris Hunt
#68. Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?
Jay Leno
#69. A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color
William Bolitho
#70. I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.
Paul Scofield
#71. The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
Sigmund Freud
#72. My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was
William Shakespeare
#73. Belittling others is no pastime for those convinced of their own standing. There is terror behind haughtiness. It takes a punishing impression of our own inferiority to leave others feeling that they aren't good enough for us.
Alain De Botton
#74. You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.
Mia Hamm
#75. When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
Park Chan-wook
#76. You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
A. L. Kennedy
#77. Life is a first impression. You get one shot at it. Make it everlasting.
J.R. Rim
#78. The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
Alan Brien
#79. I wonder if you have ever given someone a compliment that wasn't a backhanded insult.
I prefer not to, it gives people an unsettling impression of self-importance.
Rachel E. Carter
#80. An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
#81. I think the first reading of a poem is a true one, and after that we delude ourselves into the belief that the sensation, the impression, is repeated.
Jorge Luis Borges
#82. When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.
Francine Prose
#83. The mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.
Frances Wright
#84. I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent.
Rita Ora
#85. Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.
Greg Carlson
#86. Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#87. We see the world and our words in one impression, as if we're looking at a forest through a green filter. We can't see what's really green and what's not. If we were to walk around with the filter in our eye long enough, we'd forget it was there, and life would just be green.
Dave Logan
#88. My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance.
Oliver Sacks
#89. [T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.
George Washington
#90. Back. So why am I so worried about making a first impression? I answer my own question: Because you only get to do it once. Every time after, you are only making up for what happened during that initial meeting.
Jodi Picoult
#91. Create stories that will leave an everlasting impression even when you are not around to tell it
Marie Guillaume
#92. Anna seems warmer every time I meet her, thinks Lou. Funny, that. Some people, who seem friendly on first impression, turn out to be disappointingly superficial, whereas the aloof ones, like Anna, emerge as affectionate and loyal.
Sarah Rayner
#93. This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.
Ruggero Leoncavallo
#94. The best political figures create the impression that they find everyone they encounter to be what Abigail Adams said Jefferson was: one of the choice ones of the earth.
Jon Meacham
#95. Before her lay the enemy. The only end guaranteed if she forgot that fact? Death - or worse. Strangely enough, approval from those who don't even bother to introduce themselves before commenting on my shortcomings ... tends not to make much of an impression on me.
Danielle Monsch
#96. I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.
Cecily Strong
#97. My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
Boyd Rice
#98. Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.
Auguste Renoir
#99. For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.
Sofia Coppola
#100. Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.
Jeanne Moreau
