Quotes About Style

P?rul ei avea blondul acela ars È™i lipsit de via?? prin care coaforii de dam? îÈ™i arat? calit??ile de îmb?ls?m?tori.

he looked like some hoosier just starting for home from California, with store clothes and a biled shirt on.

I adore italics, don't you?

Her voice harkening to the period of her heels -- Louis XV.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.

A má literatura é a literatura em estado puro, intocada por distrações como estilo, invenção, graça ou significado, reduzida apenas ao ímpeto de escrever.

Using the comma well announces that you have an ear for sense and rhythm, confidence in your style and a proper respect for your reader

Writers jealous of their individual style are obliged to wring the utmost effect from a tiny range of marks – which explains why they get so desperate when their choices are challenged (or corrected) by copy-editors legislating according to a "house style".

a quadrilha francesa é a negação da dança, como o vestuário moderno é a negação da graça, e ambos são filhos deste século, que é a negação de tudo.

A boca podia ser o cálix, os lábios a pátena. Faltava dizer a missa nova, por um latim que ninguém aprende, e é a língua católica dos homens. Não me tenhas por sacrílego, leitora minha devota; a limpeza da intenção lava o que puder haver menos curial no estilo.

novela à reimpressão que ora se faz parece que explicam as diferenças de composição e de maneira do autor. Se este não lhe daria agora a mesma feição, é

Under the Volcano" embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab, and every page of it pulsates on Out of Body Auto-Reply, that style of pure Lowry that points at once backward, to all European literature, and forward, to the mother of all nervous breakdowns.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

Her hair, long, black and flowing, was her great asset, and she liked to wear it over her shoulders

I often reread passages of Lolita for its exquisite language. To me, Lolita has no message, no purpose, other than to exist as a marvel of literary creation. It has wit, intelligence and style. It pointedly makes no attempt to serve a higher moral purpose, and previous attempts by critics to find one have proven ludicrous. The annotated edition is accompanied by a brilliant afterword by Nabokov that is a lucid reminder of the pure joy of writing, its interplay with life.

Anyone can have original style," he countered. "And yet no one truly does. We're influenced by those who came before us, beginning with the painters thousands of years ago who imitated nature.

fashioned of flowing silk or jersey

Le style des Faux-Monnayeurs ne doit présenter aucun intérêt de surface, aucune saillie. Tout doit être dit de la manière la plus plate, celle qui fera dire à certains jongleurs : que trouvez-vous à admirer là-dedans ?

A mon goût, tout cela est trop écrit, d'un style trop précieux, trop conscient... J'écris toujours mieux et plus aisément ce que je n'ai pas porté trop longtemps en tête ; dès que ma pensée précède ma plume, c'est pour arrêter celle-ci.

My butt has specific requirements for pants.

You might not think to wear pink socks with gold stretch pants, and then add a gold turtleneck under a pink sweater. But that's what I did yesterday, and then I added blue jewelry. It was great! I looked like a human sunset. The outfit made me very happy.)