Best 198 quotes in «impression quotes» category

You cannot really not care about what other people think of you and still wear a perfume or cologne.

You only get one chance to make a positive first impression — be absolutely sure to take it!

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes.

Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.

After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.

Your unconditional love made an everlasting imprint on my heart & life forever.

A good impression is lost so quickly.

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not.

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.

Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

At first I was laboring under the impression that Chinese lyrics didn't rhyme. That turned out to be untrue - they don't rhyme in translation.

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

First impressions are always unreliable.

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

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.

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it is precisely this that unlocks the outer world for us; for without this non-sensible something, each of us would remain locked up in his inner world.

He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.

If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.