Style Quotes

• One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Eye
  • Tears
  • Sparkle

• I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Book
  • Song
  • Kind

• One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides from the waterfront. It has excellent food and wine very much in the modern California style, but I go there less for any one dish than for the pleasure of dining with the restaurant's chefs.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Food
  • California
  • Wine

• I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move.

  

  Boris Gelfand
  • Match
  • World Championship
  • Akiba Rubinstein

• Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style.

  

  Thierry Mugler
  • Fashion
  • Mean
  • Perfume

• Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Culture
  • Dreams
  • Western Man

• I knew style and content went hand in hand.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Style
  • Content

• Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Rules
  • Praise
  • Created

• Usually, I like stuff kind of fitted, but I'm getting more and more into this comfort, this melding of comfort and style rather than looking like you've tried to shove yourself into some sort of sausage casing.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Style

• Are you gonna follow your soul? Or just the style of the day?

  

  Dan Bern
  • Soul
  • Style

• The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Man
  • Way
  • Style

• I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

  

  Gerhard Richter
  • Style
  • Program
  • Mission

• As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • People
  • World
  • Player

• It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Style
  • Sound
  • Tackle

• I don't have a lot of instinctive fashion style myself.

  

  Vanessa Kirby
  • Fashion
  • Style

• The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

  

  William Cowper
  • Giving
  • Reading
  • Sports

• Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.

  

  Nathan Milstein
  • Style
  • Elegance
  • Exactness

• My style is to go in there... and kill the guy, you know

  

  Wanderlei Silva
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Knows

• It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.

  

  Nancy Lancaster
  • Style
  • Room
  • Distinction

• Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • People
  • Color
  • Drawing

• In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.

  

  Woody Shaw
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Brain

• I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Song
  • Cases
  • Composer

• I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Film
  • Clothes
  • Timeless

• Washington, D.C., had never seen my style of politics.

  

  Marion Barry
  • Style

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