#impress

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

#fake #false #illusion #impression #mask

His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain. ↗

— Alice Munro

#love #love

Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression. ↗

— Jessica Brody

#dreams #first-impressions #forgetting #memory-loss #sadness

If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#every #every man #films #get #happier

The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#about #also #create #essential #great

People are so easily impressed by running, but I run pretty frequently. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#frequently #i #impressed #people #pretty

The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#bottle #bucks #family #friendly #good

Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#came #century #first #gadgets #i

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#damaging #impression #iraq #muslim #muslim world

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb. ↗

— Wilmer Valderrama

#because #dumb #had #i #impression