Impression Quotes

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage. To thwart the biologist in me, to frustrate the logic left in me.

~ Jeff Vandermeer

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.

~ Sherry Turkle

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

~ Sherry Turkle

Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.

~ Louise Dickinson Rich

*You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Impression forms opinion, opinion deforms truth!

~ Abhijit Kar Gupta

Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'

~ George Vecsey

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

~ Edward Hopper

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

~ Rory Bremner

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

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

Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.

~ Pharrell Williams

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

~ Richard Jefferies

Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.

~ Kevin Spacey

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

~ Howard Carter

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

~ Alvin Ailey