#impress

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. ↗

— Will Smith

#earned #haven #impress #like #many

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#impressed #knowing #like #not knowing #olympian

In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#create #debate #feature #first #impression

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#associates #favorable #feature #forthcoming #her

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. ↗

— Thomas Couture

#colors #connection #consists #expressing #how

Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong. ↗

— Henry James

#anger

Thank you. I realize my methods have dampened your spirits somewhat, but in the long run you will not regret it." She did not answer, simply preceded him to the door of her room. "You look very nice tonight, Claire. May I say that that color suits you admirably." The door closed in his face. ↗

— Shelley Adina

#anger

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#fun #go #having #having fun #hey

When I first met Cara, she was twelve and angry at the world. Her parents had split up, her brother was gone, and her mom was infatuated with some guy who was missing vowels in his unpronounceable last name. So I did what any other man in that situation would do: I came armed with gifts. I bought her things that I thought a twelve-year-old would love: a poster of Taylor Lautner, a Miley Cyrus CD, nail polish that glowed in the dark. "I can't wait for the next Twilight movie," I babbled, when I presented her with the gifts in front of Georgie. "My favorite song on the CD is 'If We Were a Movie.' And I almost went with glitter nail polish, but the salesperson said this is much cooler, especially with Halloween coming up." Cara looked at her mother and said, without any judgment, "I think your boyfriend is gay. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#impression #kids #parents-dating #dating

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? ↗

— Saint Jérôme

#first-impressions #past #change