#impress

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#hang #him #illustration #impressive #lenin

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#eloquently #floor #i #impress #just

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#haggard #i #i think #impressive #me

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#first-impression #intuition #nature-vs-nurture #thin-slicing #change

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#anyone #beast #berlin #better #big

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#being #bush #clear #decades #envied

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#eagerness #feed #impress #jewish #like

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#dynamic #impression #remaining #saying #significant

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional. ↗

— Harold Larwood

#because #becoming #club #good #his

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#child #father #him #holding #i