Style Quotes

• I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Good
  • Character
  • True

• I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Style

• I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Up
  • Real
  • Art

• I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Myself
  • Style
  • Grandmother

• I believe that if you think about what style means, you won't become a fashion victim.

  

  John Varvatos
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Victim

• Engrossing, vividly written in the style of the best thrillers...It should become the standard work on the region.

  

  Anthony Sampson
  • Work
  • Region
  • Thrillers

• My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

  

  Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band
  • Music
  • Together
  • Style

• All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • May
  • Alone

• When I started making my tracks in the style that people call tropical house, I didn't do it on purpose to make it sound tropical. I made whatever I felt sounded good. I just wanted to make my own thing, and then suddenly people started calling it tropical ... I'm like, 'Yeah, that's probably a good name for it.'

  

  Kygo
  • People
  • Good
  • House

• It's not the most exciting style of playing by any means, but it's effective. One of the things that you have to do is guard them. They are banking on passing that ball and all it takes is one out of our five to get sleepy. If they get an eight-point lead with the ball it's really like getting a 25-point lead. It's going to be a very different game for us. Our kids are going to be focused and prepared.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Game

• It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

  

  Debbie Allen
  • Remember
  • Style

• Sunshine came softly through my a-window todayCould've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my waysIt'll take time, I know it but in a whileYou're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.

  

  Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I think Americans are very verbal and Aussies are more circumspect, and that can come across as being clearer. It can also come across as abrupt and cold. Some people find me to be abrupt and cold. That's just my personal style.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • People
  • Style
  • Cold

• I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Style

• Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Character
  • Style
  • Prisoner

• For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Shadow

• When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • She

• When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Moving
  • Picture
  • Emotional

• Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to push things within a range. Some are rougher, some more expressionistic, some are slicker graphically and call for a prettier drawing style that I can do. Some have a more classical vibe, and some are in between.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Different
  • Book
  • Drawing

• I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.

  

  Lodewijk Fluttert
  • Music
  • Song
  • Rock

• I didn't know a damn thing about style.

  

  Michael Bergin
  • Things
  • Damn
  • Umpires

• Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Musical
  • Views

• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Fashion
  • Style

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