Quotes About Manner

Janet had an odd air of being dressed up, rather than dressed.

Drugs were suspected, though the article, in the manner of the Gazzettino, didn't bother to specify what they were suspected of.

Side by side they were very much alike, in similarity less of lineament than of manner and bearing, a correspondence of gestures which bounced and echoed between them so that a blink seemed to reverberate, moments later, in a twitch of the other's eyelid.

Tell me the manner in which a patient commits suicide and I'll tell you how he can be cured

Bold action and bold manner are not the same.

In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing. It is a companion in the night. Each boat has its own manner and character." Travis McGee, 1985

What she might have told him was that taxidermy, like sex, is a very personal subject; the manner in which we impose it on others should be discreet.

The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs.

Not everybody has experience in drilling for oil in the Permian Basin, but the same thing is happening in every industry everywhere in some manner.

Some people are just like summer...NO CLASS!

You make an impact not by the things you do, but how you do them.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

His history will henceforth be known as I craft it. Is this not the manner in which all history is recorded? It is written, and it is so.

the Holy Spirit is the author of this work in us, so that although it is our duty, it is his grace and strength whereby it is performed; as also the manner how it is wrought by him, which is principally intended: [1.]

This some call the "grace of prayer" that is given us by the Holy Ghost, as I suppose improperly, though I will not contend about it; for prayer absolutely and formally is not a peculiar grace distinct from all other graces that are exercised in it, but it is the way and manner whereby we are to exercise all other graces of faith, love, delight, fear, reverence, self-abasement, and the like, unto certain especial ends.

It isn't about what you do, but how you do it

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

language and attitude

Soon the two men were chattering away sounding excited, they could only be discussing trivialities yet their voices, their gestures might lead the observer to suppose they were arguing about life and death. Such was the Greek manner of conversation.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease; the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom