In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you!
Vampires smiled for many reasons, but when a vampire male smiled at you from this distance with that kind of look in his eyes it was done for one purpose only: to impress. Look at my big teeth. I’m an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome.
It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.
Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.
The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.
I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
I can cook a few things. I always save the same recipes to impress my friends, and I always do two or three things, so they think I can cook. But I don't know how to do anything else.
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
That's what is really cool about this whole new wave of makeup artistry and people on Instagram and YouTube: It's about doing it for yourself and experimenting. People don't wear makeup to impress people or because they'll be seen in public. It's more of a hobby now, just because it's fun.
You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.
Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.
So what do you think you're Elvis or something, whatever that don't impress me.
If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.
I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.
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.