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Quotes About Style

I have always had a relationship with clothes.
~ Phillip Lim
Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
~ Oleg Cassini
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change.
~ William R. Miller
We do know, however, that these differences—really dfferences in style rather than ability—are not handicaps or disabilities (unlike such barriers to learning as poor vision, mild brain damage, emotional disturbance or orthopedic handicap).
~ William Ryan
Serious students of language (as it relates to social class) have dealt, not with simple-minded concepts like "verbal" and "nonverbal," but rather with issues of style and of differing ways of using and relating to language.
~ William Ryan
Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate; and never where it isn't. Reserve the apostrophe for it's proper use and omit it when its not needed.... Avoid commas, that are not necessary.... And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.... If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is...
~ William Safire
Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.
~ William Safire
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
~ William Shakespeare
Report of fashions in proud Italy,Whose manners still our tardy apish nationLimps after in base imitation.
~ William Shakespeare
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
~ William Shakespeare
Old fashions please me best.
~ William Shakespeare
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,The observ'd of all observers!
~ William Shakespeare
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
~ William Shakespeare
The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
~ William Somerset Maugham
Use the money for fashion to get books.
~ Wordsmith
How did he know so readily, you ask, that they were female fiends? Because he saw that each of them had a chignon on her head about fifteen inches tall and adorned with tiny bamboo strips. It was a most unfashionable style! Our
~ Wu Cheng'en
Fashion is the work of the devil."
~ Wu Ting-Fang
I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
~ Wynton Marsalis
he wished that he had been more faithful as a child in heeding the advice of his boxing teacher. After all, the old masters did know something. There is still a kick in style, and tradition carries a nasty wallop.
~ David Remnick
As a poet, he is both the firm teacher trying to guide us and the mild one inviting us to develop on our own, a paradox captured in lines like "I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?" or "He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
~ David S. Reynolds
Falconer was wearing his street clothes—jeans, a black turtleneck and an empty shoulder holster under his armpit. Cowboy boots. Little bit of beard stubble. John wondered if the guy would walk from one end of the street to the other without winding up covered in bitches.
~ David Wong
We looked like a girl gang that would have the Queen as our leader, all low heels and no-nonsense curls.
~ Deanna Raybourn
He grinned. "You realise I'm reporting for duty on the second of January?" "Good. Then the last memory you'll have of me is wearing a party frock and knocking back cocktails while I kick old 1914 right in the teeth. Let's send it off in style. (Delilah and Johnny)
~ Deanna Raybourn
One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both.
~ Deanna Raybourn