Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring…

— Kevin Spacey

There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't…

— Jack Handey

“First impressions stick. That’s why it’s so important that we do tedious things like remember to wear deodorant, brush our teeth, and insert commas…

— Jenny Baranick

First impressions are very important, so make sure to be weird right away.

— Anonymous

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

— Jessie Redmon Fauset

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer…

— Anonymous

First impressions are often wrong since they are based on past experience, your current mood, the surroundings, or appearances.

— Anonymous

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

— Anonymous

During the day, our souls gather their ... impressions of us, how our lives feel. ... Our spirits collect these impressions, keep them together,…

— Marsha Norman

“First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.”

— Renate Linnenkoper

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

— Walter Pater

“Good first impressions…are good for business.”

— CS-Edit

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

— John Dean

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible…

— William Hazlitt