Impressed Quotes - Page 5

• How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Mean, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Thinking, Brain

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.122, Scholastic Inc.

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• Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory.

  Nicole Krauss

  Hurt, Memories, Fall

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.138, Anchor

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• I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.

  Randy Pausch

  Attitude, Men, Wish

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• We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a person might use to pass on a favorite lasagna recipe. And I was responding with the same enthusiasm a new cook might show. I was simultaneously horrified and impressed with myself.

  Janet Evanovich

  Might Use, Recipes, Enthusiasm

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• Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Hardest Job, People

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• Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?" "Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word." "And you're a big-" "Tsk tsk," he interupted. "No swearing in church.

  Cassandra Clare

  Self, Annoyed, Church

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Behind me, Marc made a soft whistling sound, clearly impressed. “That’s not standard procedure,” he said, his tone entirely too reasonable as he leaned over the stray’s body to open the back passenger-side door. “Yeah, well, I’m not your standard enforcer.

  Rachel Vincent

  Doors, Sound, Body

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.16, MIRA

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• Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, People, Three

  Catch-22 ch. 9 (1961)

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• I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

  Michael Connelly

  Book, Hands, People

  "Q&A With Author Michael Connelly". Interview with Austin O'Connor, www.aarp.org. March 9, 2011.

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• Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Numbers

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• the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Art, Class, Fiction

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• I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

  Berenice Abbott

  Photographer, Havens

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• While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

  Thomas Dolby

  Intellectual, Quality, Giants

  Song: Airhead, Album: Aliens Ate My Buick

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• Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Beautiful, Witty, Giving

  A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)

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• People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

  Margaret Millar

  Data, Ideas, People

  Margaret Millar (2016). “A Stranger in My Grave”, p.116, Soho Press

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• My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

  Kevin Cramer

  Children, Years, Knowing

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• I'm always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humour.

  Tamara Mellon

  Kindness, Humour

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• I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

  Dorothy Fields

  Book, Ties, Together

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• The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him

  Michel Patini

  Fighting, Player, Creating

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• I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Jobs, Done, Designer

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• I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

  David R. Brower

  People, Impossible, Young

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• I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

  Shahrukh Khan

  India, West, Film

  "Cool as ice". Interview with David Light, www.khaleejtimes.com. December 11, 2011.

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• I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Thinking, People, Special

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

  Horace

  Mind, Vices, Example

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