205 Quotes About Impression

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.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

Walk through life with a fervor that leaves an impression and attracts admiration like a clump of palm fruit that does not hit ground without leaving a mark and attracting sand.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Beauty of office, is profession in place

What do people see in me on the first impression? Can they still see what I was until not long ago? Is there any imprint left from the love I knew? A rebirth mark?

she had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach.

... the impression made by architecture, far from being something like visual tallying, essentially consists of an unmediated bodily feeling

That evening we gathered in the dining room, a forty-foot-high-ceiling atrium with indoor plants and outdoor blooms separated by tall windows—the impression of great openness, even while sheltered.