I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
I would rather impress you with my storytelling than with the size of my waist and my hips.
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.
Today, writers want to impress other writers.
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
We've all been that young love, trying to impress the in-laws or having these crazy cousins that we're related to by blood - we can't choose them as sort of friends, but they're there.
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
Joining McLaren didn't add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
Girls shouldn't be afraid to look messy. They shouldn't have to always fit in with the pretty girls. Our goal as women is not to impress guys.
I'm not trying to have no surgeries because I'm trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff.
There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.