Impressions Quotes

Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed.

~ Robert Macfarlane

Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.

~ Nema Al-Araby

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

~ Margaret Atwood

We're Christians. We have to care what people think. The appearance of wrongdoing, remember? I'm not going to move in with you had have people think we're living in sin. What sort of witness would that be?

~ Francine Rivers

It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it's unrealistic to expect that they won't. So, if you want to be judged in a certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

~ Thomas Hardy

His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was.

~ Tarjei Vesaas

Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.

~ Gregory C. Carlson

I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.

~ Jesse Hajicek

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.

~ André Breton

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy of his regard.

~ Timothy Schaffert