Bad Impression Quotes

• 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.

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  Katharine Whitehorn

  Weather   Long   People  

  The Observer, August 07, 1966.

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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.

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  Steve Winwood

  School   Sunday   College  

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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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!

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  Cassandra Clare

  Night   Knives   Giving  

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

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

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  Ted Cruz

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

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  Jeanne Moreau

  People   Fever   Ridiculous  

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• 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.

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  Lisa Kleypas

  People   First Impression   Firsts  

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

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