Impress Quotes

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. (W. C. Fields)
The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. View quote
Orson Welles
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. View quote
Will Rogers
If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know. View quote
Bob Weinstein
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. View quote
Salma Hayek
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. View quote
Richard Bach
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. View quote
Henry Rollins
Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. View quote
William Wordsworth
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. (Carl Friedrich Gauss)
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. View quote
Marie Curie
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor. View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad. View quote
Corazon Aquino
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father. View quote
Herb Ritts
We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them. View quote
Nobuo Uematsu
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. View quote
Olympia Brown
Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers. View quote
George Henry Lewes
The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like. View quote
Amos Oz
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. (Edgar Allan Poe)
The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him. View quote
Clement of Alexandria
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words. View quote
Barbara Walters
Men created civilization only to impress their girl friends. View quote
Orson Welles
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works. View quote
John Cleese