Style Quotes
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
Tags: Far, Times ✍ Author: Irving BabbittMy vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.
Tags: Italian, Old ✍ Author: Sebastian BachAs Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
Tags: Hair, Music ✍ Author: Erykah BaduThe blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.
Tags: Blues, Time ✍ Author: James CagneyI actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.
Tags: Actually, Appealing ✍ Author: Jonathan CainAs the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.
Tags: Alive, Makes ✍ Author: Sarah CaldwellAfter watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.
Tags: After, Films ✍ Author: Earl CampbellMy running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
Tags: Dance, Running ✍ Author: Earl CampbellStyle advice? Always wear clothes... that are... clean, for starters. An added bonus if it is pressed as well. Unless you are wearing clothes that are supposed to look rumpled.
Tags: Advice, Unless ✍ Author: Steve CarellThe director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
Tags: Director ✍ Author: Willem DafoeI discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.
Tags: College, Writing ✍ Author: Claire DanesI think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
Tags: Acting, Trust ✍ Author: Jeff DanielsI was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.
Tags: American, Three ✍ Author: Lee DanielsI'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.
Tags: Absolute, Mix ✍ Author: Billy EckstineVisit partners pages
I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names.
Tags: Model, Names ✍ Author: Elle FanningI don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.
Tags: Place, Rather ✍ Author: Anna FarisMy style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
Tags: Comedy, Real ✍ Author: Paul FeigOne arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Tags: Atrocious, Effort ✍ Author: Gustave FlaubertI think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
Tags: Future, Spirit ✍ Author: Stephen FryLike most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.
Tags: Choices, Skin ✍ Author: Nina GarciaIt is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
Tags: Remarkable, Surprising ✍ Author: Stephen GardinerThe American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
Tags: American, Order ✍ Author: Stephen GardinerI've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.
Tags: Stuff, Wanted ✍ Author: Lukas HaasMy writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.
Tags: Sensual, Writing ✍ Author: Laurell K. HamiltonIt's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
Tags: Attitude, Project ✍ Author: Herbie HancockSwitzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Tags: Country, Small ✍ Author: Ernest HemingwayStyle is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Tags: Subject, Substance ✍ Author: Victor HugoI am against the notion of style in itself.
Tags: Against, Notion ✍ Author: Guillermo Cabrera InfanteI don't have any style.
✍ Author: Guillermo Cabrera InfanteI'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
Tags: Personal, Sorry ✍ Author: Henry M. JacksonStyle? I have no style.
✍ Author: Anatoly KarpovI love Diane Keaton's style in 'Annie Hall,' but I like to think my own style is like a cross between 'Annie Hall' and Prince.
Tags: Between, Love ✍ Author: Lianne La HavasI try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
Tags: Musical, Try ✍ Author: Adam LambertSly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.
Tags: Good, Together ✍ Author: Jon LandauScientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
Tags: General, Public ✍ Author: Fran LebowitzSimplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Tags: Character, Simplicity ✍ Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIn character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Tags: Character, Simplicity ✍ Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowMy style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
Tags: Icons, Manson ✍ Author: Marina and the DiamondsWe used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
Tags: Forget, Used ✍ Author: Naguib MahfouzIf I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.
Tags: Films, Year ✍ Author: Mohsen MakhmalbafStyle is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
Tags: Hand, Material ✍ Author: Andre MauroisAll my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Tags: Matter, Seems ✍ Author: Vladimir NabokovYou can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Tags: Count, Fancy ✍ Author: Vladimir NabokovSome people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.
Tags: Try, Work ✍ Author: LeRoy NeimanA sense of style can be sort of fun, as long as it doesn't get in the way.
Tags: Fun, Sense ✍ Author: Bob NeyThe thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
Tags: Changed, Done ✍ Author: John OatesI check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.
Tags: Fashion, Love ✍ Author: Ashley OlsenI think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.
Tags: Far, Words ✍ Author: MiguelThe North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
Tags: American, Both ✍ Author: Camille PagliaAngelina Jolie is my style inspiration.
✍ Author: Adrianne PalickiWhen we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Tags: Author, Natural ✍ Author: Blaise PascalA style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.
Tags: Rules, Written ✍ Author: Paul RandWhen critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
Tags: Critics, Waiting ✍ Author: John Crowe RansomIt's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style.
Tags: Players, Win ✍ Author: Jamie RedknappI like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.
Tags: Comedy, Show ✍ Author: Portia Simpson-MillerThe style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
Tags: Art, Clear ✍ Author: Jerry SaltzI'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.
Tags: Against, Matter ✍ Author: Jerry SaltzWell, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.
Tags: Since, Started ✍ Author: Gus Van SantWhen an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Tags: May, Mind ✍ Author: Albert SchweitzerThe web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Tags: Art, Once ✍ Author: Robert Louis StevensonStorytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
Tags: Elegant, Hand ✍ Author: Donna TarttGrime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.
Tags: Music, Side ✍ Author: Tinie TempahI've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.
Tags: Another, Defines ✍ Author: James TenneyI do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.
Tags: Sit, Write ✍ Author: Sharon Van EttenMy personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup.
Tags: Personal, Shoes ✍ Author: Enrique Vila-MatasI have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
Tags: Care, Story ✍ Author: Jeff VandermeerMy style go with me. It depend how I feel, what is my state of mind.
Tags: Mind, State ✍ Author: Paz VegaElegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
Tags: Kinds, Men ✍ Author: Donatella VersaceStyle is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Tags: Giving, Knowing ✍ Author: Gore VidalHe most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Tags: Destroy, Teacher ✍ Author: Walt WhitmanThere is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
Tags: Design, Takes ✍ Author: Peter YorkNo change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Tags: Change, Rock ✍ Author: Frank ZappaI always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
Tags: Follow, Personal ✍ Author: Rachel ZoeI would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.
Tags: Bit, Role ✍ Author: Rachel ZoeOne forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Tags: Daily, Terrible ✍ Author: Emile ZolaAll my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
Tags: Father, Life ✍ Author: Martin AmisTo me, style is consistency.
✍ Author: Adam AntI wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
Tags: After, Wanted ✍ Author: Dario ArgentoI'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
Tags: Audience ✍ Author: Dario ArgentoStyle is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
Tags: Attitude, Reflection ✍ Author: Shawn AshmoreThe higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
Tags: Enough, Mistakes ✍ Author: Fred AstaireI do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
Tags: Care, Subject ✍ Author: Richard AttenboroughReal style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.
Tags: Crisis, Real ✍ Author: Frank Auerbach