It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get.There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes

To be truly stylish (as opposed to merely "in style", which is the opposite) is to be unabashedly one's self, without reference to the fashions and demands of a sweltering crowd.

Michael Harris

The secret to style is a beautiful smile.

Richelle E. Goodrich

It doesn't matter if your life is perfect as long as your hair color is.

Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

If you have received a letter inviting you to speak at the dedication of a new cat hospital, and you hate cats, your reply, declining the invitation, does not necessarily have to cover the full range of your emotions. You must make it clear that you will not attend, but you do not have to let fly at the cats. The writer of the letter asked a civil question; attack cats, then, only if you can do so with good humor, good taste, and in such a way that your answer will be courteous as well as responsive. Since you are out of sympathy with cats, you may quite properly give this as a reason for not appearing at the dedicatory ceremonies of a cat hospital. But bear in mind that your opinion of cats was not sought, only your services as a speaker. Try to keep things straight.

William Strunk Jr.

The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.

George Pólya

Reagan is described as "delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.

H.W. Brands

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

Harold Bloom

You do not see any improvements you would make?"Miss Harding's smile turned mischievous. "Not at present. But I should have to see the inside. That is where ladies really excel, you know, in curtains and cushions and such.""Indeed," David murmured, remembering how Maude had filled the London house with bolts and piles of fabrics and wallpapers and pillows the instant they arrived. Everything in the very latest style. And then he thought of Emma's cosy sitting room, all books and family portraits and dog beds.

Amanda McCabe

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from the lavatory pan to the ashtray. On the contrary, I like people to move their furniture so that it suits them (not me!), and it's quite natural (and I approve) when they bring the old pictures and mementos they have come to love into a new interior, irrespective of whether they are good taste or bad.

Adolf Loos

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

Vladimir Nabokov

Posture reflects your attitude.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Cool is not an attitude - It's a state of mind

Roy Smoothe

MY ⓈⓉⓎⓁⒺ is,My Presentation➟ &My Attituⅾe is,Your Reflection

Fahad Rashiq

Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style," Kelsier said.Then he punched Ruin across the face.

Brandon Sanderson

Sometimes people are often confused between attitude and style. Nevermind, I'm Awesome.

Yugesh Ralli

Women are extraordinary creatures!

Roman Payne

Style is the woman herself.

Amit Abraham

Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit a certain academic styles and standards, then it is not poetry. Poetry should relate to the man on the street who has to work for a living. Until poetry connects with the working man, it’s not going to sell; it’s not going to be of value.

Harley King

Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.

C. JoyBell C.

Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

Béatrice Peltre

There is no style in dieting but we become beautiful when we change our style of living.

Debasish Mridha

Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.

Amit Kalantri

Dance was her style, dance was her fashion.

Amit Kalantri

Whereas I would argue that style is morality: morality detailed, configured, intensified. It’s not in the mere narrative arrangement of good and bad that morality makes itself felt. It can be there in every sentence

Martin Amis

Integrity never goes out of style.

Jim George

Approaching the Start of Civil ExamsPerhaps I was once a young Chinese scholarapproaching the start of civil exams,my mind grown weary and sad from seclusionwith books on syntax and poetic style.All that I knew were the mist-covered mountainsand sweet white blossoms of mountain applesthat grew in the valleys of my province.But I had been gone over six yearsbusy with studies in the Heavenly Cityempty and thin despite my work.I showed my verses to an older poetwho told me a truth I longed to believe:all knowledge is futile and barrenwhich does not open the love of your friends.

Jim Chapson

You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.

Jude Deveraux

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

Steven Pinker

True class can never receive the highest grade..for its grade is endless

Denise Newsome

What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted."Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that? Written with Fowler on his left hand and Roget on his right. Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...""What was he like as a person?" asked Dalgliesh."Oh, difficult. Very difficult, poor fellow! I thought you knew him? A precise, self-opinionated, nervous little man perpetually fretting about his sales, his publicity or his book jackets. He overvalued his own talent and undervalued everyone else's, which didn't exactly make for popularity.""A typical writer, in fact?" suggested Dalgliesh mischievously.

P.D. James

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.

Mary Kay Ash

Posture is paramount to your future.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Confident posture gets you noticed for all the right reasons.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Great posture is the foundation that always fits.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Great posture never goes out of style.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

William Battie

Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself.

Cindy Ann Peterson

A strong confident person can rule the room with knowledge, personal style, attitude and great posture.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Our nonverbal behavior (including posture) gives away our inner personality and reflects our inner attitude.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Always walk with style and finesse.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Your posture is the key to your personal and professional foundation.

Cindy Ann Peterson

By taking good care of your posture now, you will enjoy and savor lifelong health benefits and beauty.

Cindy Ann Peterson

In all areas of your life, striving for proper posture can enhance your career, style and health.

Cindy Ann Peterson

You project a confident image through good body posture.

Cindy Ann Peterson

No amount of high fashion can make up for a lifetime of poor posture.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Great style and posture go hand in hand.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Nina García

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Stacy London

Perfection isn't necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.

Nike Thaddeus

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Orson Welles

Love is the ultimate style.

Debasish Mridha

Knowing why you are is your purpose.Knowing who you are is your style.Knowing what you are is your character

Debasish Mridha

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?

Ronald J. Sider

Smile once a while; even if life tastes like bitter bile, just file out your teeth and cheeks and take a mile of sweet smiles... Smile, make it your life's style. Decorate your face with piles of smiles!

Israelmore Ayivor

What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles.

Elizabeth Lowell

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

Sandra E. Lamb

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