Style Quotes - Page 3

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

David Foster Wallace

Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker

Star Trek The Next Generation

Let the systematic theologian spell it out. Let the artists throw out thoughts and slants, maybe even slants no one else has thought of. They should give another view of something familiar to help us learn more about it. They should deal with love, life, good, evil, God, the world and faith. Many of the biblical writers were poets more than they were theologians. Poets and prophets ranted and raved, and storytellers wrote great yarns that all had different slants on God and life and faith. Perhaps the poet's absence from the Church for many centuries has left it deprived of much insight.

Steve Stockman

Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish.

Criss Jami

I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ferried the cream of society across the void in opulence and style. Only the wealthiest could afford an apartment on this ship for a trip of any duration, even a short one around the proverbial block. Even the crew was obliged to pay rent.

Christina Engela

You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.

Ann Marie Frohoff

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

Stacey T. Hunt

It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.

Amit Kalantri

Spirit means Breath and without one or the other there is no life.

Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

Passion towards a dream is the fuel that fires every trace of impossibility in the environment, paving way for you to win with style.

Israelmore Ayivor

Passion for what you do goes hand in hand with style.You can say I'm a passionista

Janna Cachola

Wear Bow World Bow

Dr. Syed Abbas Muttaqui

You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style.

Israelmore Ayivor

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.

Kurt Cobain

They were bound together by a common love of a certain kind of music, physical beauty, and style—all the things one shouldn’t throw away an ounce of energy pursuing, and sometimes throw away a life pursuing.

Andrew Holleran

The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a stylized version of man’s consciousness in action—the dance presents a stylized version of man’s body in action.

Ayn Rand

We may now briefly enumerate the elements of style. We have, peculiar to the prose writer, the task of keeping his phrases large, rhythmical, and pleasing to the ear, without ever allowing them to fall into the strictly metrical: peculiar to the versifier, the task of combining and contrasting his double, treble, and quadruple pattern, feet and groups, logic and metre—harmonious in diversity: common to both, the task of artfully combining the prime elements of language into phrases that shall be musical in the mouth; the task of weaving their argument into a texture of committed phrases and of rounded periods—but this particularly binding in the case of prose: and, again common to both, the task of choosing apt, explicit, and communicative words. We begin to see now what an intricate affair is any perfect passage; how many faculties, whether of taste or pure reason, must be held upon the stretch to make it; and why, when it is made, it should afford us so complete a pleasure. From the arrangement of according letters, which is altogether arabesque and sensual, up to the architecture of the elegant and pregnant sentence, which is a vigorous act of the pure intellect, there is scarce a faculty in man but has been exercised. We need not wonder, then, if perfect sentences are rare, and perfect pages rarer.-ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE

Robert Louis Stevenson

Willpower is misunderstood. The very word suggests that wanting something badly enough bequeaths that necessary strength to achieve or overcome something. If that were the case, I'd be Michael Fassbender's missus by now.

Annmarie O'Connor

You know the old adage: give a woman a bag and she'll fill it for a day. Teach a woman to pack and she'll fill every damn bag she owns (or something of that ilk).

Annmarie O'Connor

Excuses – the great enabler. Without them, we'd have no reason to shop when we shouldn't and every reason to feel guilty for doing so. Nothing like the aul 'dog ate my knickers' chestnut to manifest a new handbag at will (in which to deposit much-needed new knickers, of course).

Annmarie O'Connor

I was sweating like Christy Moore at a Feis Ceol, so badly, in fact, I looked like I was sporting a finger moustache as I attempted to rescue suicidal perspiration drops from my upper lip. Classy.

Annmarie O'Connor

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.

Robin Hobb

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

Criss Jami

Style jazzes up your canvas.

A.D. Posey

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

Leni Riefenstahl

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Karl Lagerfeld

My toes are a total wreck, my fingernails worse, and god knows my hair could use a registered nurse.

Jack Bunbury

Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty.

Diane Von Furstenberg

The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuality is peculiar to that person or work. We have brought with us the ideas of “beauty,” “breadth of style,” “pathos” and so forth which we might at a pinch have the illusion of recognising in the banality of a conventional face or talent, but our critical spirit has before it the insistent challenge of a form of which it possesses no intellectual equivalent, in which it must disengage the unknown element. It hears a sharp sound, an oddly interrogative inflexion. It asks itself: “Is that good? Is what I am feeling now admiration? Is that what is meant by richness of colouring, nobility, strength?” And what answers it again is a sharp voice, a curiously questioning tone, the despotic impression, wholly material, caused by a person whom one does not know, in which no scope is left for “breadth of interpretation.” And for this reason it is the really beautiful works that, if we listen to them with sincerity, must disappoint us most keenly, because in the storehouse of our ideas there is none that responds to an individual impression.

Marcel Proust

Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.

Victor Hugo

She's beautiful,' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

George Orwell

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Coco Chanel

Style is a sacred fashion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Fashion is an art.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the religious reverence of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.' And he understood for the first time the earnestness with which May, who was incapable of tying a ribbon in her hair to charm him, had gone through the solemn rite of selecting and ordering her extensive wardrobe.

Edith Wharton

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Karl Lagerfeld

First rule of cleavage: it's not how low you go, but where and when you show.

Elisabeth Dale

Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume!

C. JoyBell C.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

Karl Lagerfeld

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.

Karl Lagerfeld

Some people just win, while others win with indelible styles. Don’t just dream to win; dare to be remain a winner!

Israelmore Ayivor

Your approach and response to issues will determine how people will relate and deal with you per time.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

Nicole Richie

A person living in everyone else's style reacts only to stimulus

Sunday Adelaja

He utilizesform for a striking lecture;young poets shiverinexperience,but thaw over their own work,fertilize magic.

Kristen Henderson

Forget about style worry about results.

Bobby Orr

I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde, I want to do the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hitchens and Kipling as well as the pastel dawns and twilights of Chesterton. All that is by way of example. As a matter of fact I am a professed literary thief, hot after the best methods of every writer in my generation.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

Vladimir Nabokov

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Ngaio Marsh

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Oscar Wilde

That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it – just Life, seen through a living eye, and felt. As for literature, and style, and all that gallimaufry, don't fear for them if your author has the ghost of a hint of genius in his making.

Walter de la Mare

I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.

Lori R. Lopez

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

Stephen King

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