Wrong Impression Quotes

#1. I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are
ah
slumming.

Harper Lee

#2. 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.

Katie Hopkins

#3. A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

Donald Ray Pollock

#4. I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.

Owen Pallett

#5. Comstock, but I left a wrong impression with you. I don't want

Gene Stratton-Porter

#6. You know, Maude ... somebody meeting you for the first time
not knowing you were cracked
might get the wrong impression of you.

Preston Sturges

#7. Hannah! You've simply got to stop finding bodies. I swear you attract them like a magnet. If you're not careful, everyone's going to get the wrong impression of you." - Delores Swenson

Joanne Fluke

#8. ..... He liked it that way. Liked giving people the wrong impression so that when he sprung what the fuck he really was on them it was too late.

Jordan Silver

#9. If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

Richard P. Feynman

#10. Faith is about trust in something deeper. Maybe I have given you the wrong impression when I pray to the Saints, but it always allows peace of mind for me. I know they intercede before God, but I also know that God is listening, and just knowing this makes all the difference.

Olga Soaje

#11. I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

Sting

#12. Oh, he's not like that," said Favonius.
Jason flinched. "You can read my mind?"
"I don't need to." Favonius tossed his bronze hoop in the air. "Everyone has the wrong impression of Cupid ... until they meet him.

Rick Riordan

#13. I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

Garrison Keillor

#14. We have a few young people who are very successful in it, and this gives us the wrong impression that the whole country can live off high tech.

Stef Wertheimer

#15. But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.

Bjorn Lomborg

#16. We needed to talk about a lot of things and I needed not to have sex with him again. I was beginning to think I was giving him the wrong impression.

Kristen Ashley

#17. People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

Ron Wood

#18. My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews to do long rows

Steve Fairbairn

#19. Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists

Dmitri Volkogonov

#20. It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.

Wilkie Collins

#21. It was true that Odette played vilely, but often the most memorable impression of a piece of music is one that has arisen out of a jumble of wrong notes struck by unskilful fingers upon a tuneless piano.

Marcel Proust

#22. He (Orwell) always made an impression of the passing traveler who meets one on the station, points out that one is waiting for the wrong train, and vanishes

V.S. Pritchett

#23. A person who doesn't understand both sides of an issue can't relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.

Daniel Willey

#24. Some people think insufficiency means weakness and surplus means strength, but this impression is wrong.

Sun Tzu

#25. Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.

Richard Wurmbrand

#26. Your impression of everyone is probably wrong in some way.

Kiera Cass

#27. If you have the impression that you know the other person inside and out, you are wrong. Are you sure that you even know yourself? Every person is a world to explore.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#28. Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

Jonathan Franzen

#29. It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

Martin Seligman

#30. I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.

Gerhard Richter

#31. Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#32. In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

Deborah Sampson

#33. Harper was suddenly overwhelmed with the need to make an impression. She didn't want to be forgotten, even if it was for all the wrong reasons.

Elizabeth Craft

#34. Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#35. Often the fairest impression that remains in our minds of a favourite air is one which has arisen out of a jumble of wrong notes struck by unskillful fingers upon a tuneless piano.

Marcel Proust

#36. You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

Michael Frayn

#37. Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.

Michael Joseph Murano

#38. Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman