Bad Impression Quotes

My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.

Lisa Kleypas

People, First Impression, Firsts

Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor”, p.103, Macmillan

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A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.

Ted Cruz

Impression

"Ted Cruz on opposition to trade bill, ObamaCare alternative". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

Cassandra Clare

Night, Knives, Giving

Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.

Steve Winwood

School, Sunday, College

Source: www.rollingstone.com

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People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

Katharine Whitehorn

Weather, Long, People

The Observer, August 07, 1966.

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Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

Jeanne Moreau

People, Fever, Ridiculous

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