Quotes About Style

Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&ampG dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.

I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.

a lady to her fingertips.

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

I don't think writers compete, I think they're all doing separate things in their own style.

Theo shook out the half square of heavy silk. "It will make all the difference to this insipid gown." With one sharp wrench she pulled out the lace fichu tucked into her bodice and replaced it with the scarf. It flashed raspberry red against the almond-colored muslin of her gown.

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

I'm going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.

There's a girl in this dress, there's always a girl in distress.

You start out imitating your heroes, and the way you fuck up becomes your style.

Style is the mind's architecture.

Modelos de estilo: el juramento, el telegrama y el epitafio.

The persistence of this imagery calls to mind what Ludwik Fleck termed 'the self-contained' nature of scientific thought. As he described it, 'the interaction between what is already known, what remains to be learned, and those who are to apprehend it, go to ensure harmony within the system. But at the same time they also preserve the harmony of illusions, which is quite secure within the confines of a given thought style.

Some extreme sceptics, we know, doubt whether it is possible to deduce anything as to an author's character from his works. Yet surely people do not keep a tame steam engine to write their books; and if those books were really written by a man, he must have been a man who could write them; he must have had the thoughts which they express, have acquired the knowledge they contain, have possessed the style in which we read them.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Judged from a literary point of view, Nathan lacks style and cultivation. Like most young men, ambitious of literary fame, he disgorges to-day what he acquired yesterday.

matter that the robe was pure silk and had cost a fortune, their daughter wouldn't be caught dead in anything

She was dressed, as usual, in an odd assortment of clothes, most of which had belonged to other people.

I am in general susceptible to style.

He was clad in stylish pale linen and had a squashy packet of Gallic fags jutting from his breast pocket.

When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"     —Rita Rudner Long

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.