Impression Quotes - Page 26

• It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Success, People, Use

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.13, The Overlook Press

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• Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Rabbits, Littles

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• Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of instructions about how to live and someone had forgotten to give them to her. She had no clue what she was supposed to feel, so she had spent her life faking at being a human being, with no idea how other people felt. What was it like to really love someone? To really fit in or belong somewhere? She was quick, and a good mimic, so she learned at an early age to give the impression of a normal, happy girl, but inside she had always been lonely.

  Fannie Flagg

  Girl, Lonely, Ideas

  Fannie Flagg (1999). “Welcome to the world, baby girl!: a novel”, Vintage

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• Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.

  Charles Dickens

  Christian, Years, Games

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.

  Louise Rennison

  Uncles, Doe, Body

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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

  Thinking, Law, Actors

  Stephen King (2003). “The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• 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 gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.

  Iain Banks

  Lying, Opposites, Giving

  Iain M. Banks (2010). “Look To Windward”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• 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 the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.

  Terry Pratchett

  Two, Giving, Interesting

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.161, Random House

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• What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fate, College, Expression

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• 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.

  Anne Rice

  Sympathetic, Comment, Left

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is outside of awareness doesn't mean it's outside of control.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Doors, Brain

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• 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 through these procedures of hostelry so as not to arouse suspicion.

  Paul Quarrington

  Men, Giving, Pet

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "The Story of My Life".

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• 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 china walls unrecorded.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Wall, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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 yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that *they* might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.

  Yann Martel

  Children, Moving, Years

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.119, Canongate Books

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• 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 my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Good Night, Amy, Able

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• 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 I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.91, Psychology Press

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• If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beautiful, Moon, Ifs

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• 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 scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous.

  Paul Rand

  Real, Artist, Boys

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• Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Boys, Details, Never Trust

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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 only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Regret, Years

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, ePenguin

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• 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 a favorable impression of himself.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Intelligence, Mind

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• 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 marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Needs, Realization

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• 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 a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Psychics, World

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• 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 voice.' I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.

  Peter Høeg

  Girl, Sorry, Eye

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