Impression Quotes

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Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature. — Stephen King
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard… — Terry Pratchett
What a gulf between impression and expression! Thatâ€™s our ironic fateâ€”to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare)… — Aldous Huxley
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing… — John O'Donohue
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… — Anne Rice
The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind… — Malcolm Gladwell
The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going… — Paul Quarrington
The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its… — Virginia Woolf
People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will… — Yann Martel
The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change… — W. Somerset Maugham
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because… — Bertrand Russell
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. — Sylvia Plath
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The… — Paul Rand
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were… — Marcel Proust
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere… — Jack Kerouac
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… — Anais Nin
There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough… — Peter HÃ¸eg

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