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Quotes About Style

Life should be all about change. But some things shouldn't change. And my three-piece suits are one of those things.
~ Ali Velshi
My whole way of thinking is, your life is almost like a movie, and you are costuming each day as you go.
~ Annabel Tollman
My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
~ Beth Ditto
One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!
~ Bethany Cosentino
Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
~ Charles Darwin
Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.
~ Charlotte Moss
I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision.
~ Chris O'Dowd
I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.
~ Clemence Poesy
Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion
~ Edward Gorey
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
~ Edward Hopper
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.
~ Edward R. Tufte
Over the years, I have perfected my "just rolled out of bed" style by, more often than not, just rolling out of bed. I've cultivated the look since I've found that ladies like my messy hair—it's an excuse to run their fingers through it. More important, it's yet another component to my whole strategy: nothing works better in a wolf's quest for getting laid than looking like you've just gotten laid.
~ Edward Vilga
Historical radicalism and today's radicalism gained and achieved only the outward glamour of style and system, not the inward changing of thought, conduct, and distinction. As a fact, the conception, whether colonialism, imperialism, and such isms still exist; however, in a new packing of radicalism; otherwise, one can realize, and easily define as that: Fool the public; rule the republic.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A real lady wears a cloth coat as if it were her best mink, and tosses her mink about as if it were cloth.
~ Eileen Goudge
it always makes me feel good about myself when I've dressed appropriately. It happens so rarely.
~ Eileen Rendahl
But now you know the specific cause of your difficulty with [certain tasks] and can explore ways around the overarousal they create. So there's really very little that you can't do if you find a way to do it in your own style.
~ Elaine N. Aron
You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
though he could certainly be witty, he wasn't what you would really call funny, not like Dickens was.
~ Elif Batuman
What is style, what is taste; how do you develop a style, how do you develop a taste? Who that we knew had one, how did they get it?
~ Elif Batuman
Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be.
~ Anthony Marais
One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. "They'll always pass muster," Miss Dunstable had replied, "when they are done up with bank notes."
~ Anthony Trollope
Come to a rousing end. End in style, with flair or a flourish.
~ Anthony Weston
asyndeton (absence of conjunction) is normally equivalent to syndeton (use of the conjunction and).
~ Antonin Scalia
Better to look a bit weird than to have own beard.
~ Anuj Somany