Adriana Trigiani Quotes

What can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli.

First appearance deceives many.

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

We unwittingly judge products by their boxes, books by their covers, and even corporation's annual reports by their nice glossy finish.

You judge someone from the day you meet them.

The way you see me on 'Jersey' is a snapshot, and you can't judge from a snapshot.

People tend to hold on to their first impressions - that's why those first descriptions can be so important. You don't even necessarily look at people that carefully after a while; you just hold on to that early impression.

And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.

You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".

If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.

The first thought is often the best.

She studied him for a few more seconds. “You look too pretty to be useful.” I gasped in spite of myself. Adrian chuckled and shook her hand. “Truer words were never spoken,” he said.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.