Quotes About Style

The most determining external influence on his style was unquestionably the old, so-called King James version of the English Bible. His language is saturated with its thought and phraseology. And as he is intimately acquainted with it in all its parts, so he is continually quoting it and constantly surprising us with fresh discoveries, in novel collocations, of its variety, beauty and impressiveness.

Our local antiques dealers, a merry band of siblings, have this covered alleyway with stalls and booths. Our town planners stuck their oar in, so the architectural style is neo-gothic catastrophic with a smattering of postcard mosque.

Wide-cut slacks gave her a sunken appearance from behind, calling to mind an old remark of Moffett's. Legs for days but ass for the next five minutes.

tall man in his thirties wearing jeans with rolled bottoms, a tiny-collared white shirt, and a red paisley tie appeared. Longish dark hair was combed to look careless. Black-rimmed glasses and red-brown saddle shoes added up to hipster, not corporate lawyer.

black hair slicked but rebellious, white sideburns shaggy and mal-trimmed ("let's hear it for skunk stripes")

The white in her hair verged on silver-plate. The style was some cosmetologist's ode to meringue.

What are they trying to do?" Davison asked. "I never heard of anything like this." I took my eyes off Ginger's legs. "Gangsters," I said. "But they've gone out of style," Davison said. "They don't have gangsters any more." "Suppose you go out and tell them that," I said.

He was a hip cat a hep cat a cool cat a bad mad rad cat Oobie-do John the Sax Man Scat Man the long sleek cat man!!

In general, in the Mosaic books, style mirrors substance. The way something is said is often connected to what is being said.

Wenn man schon eines grässlichen Todes sterben muss, sollte man wenigstens einen stilvollen Abgang hinlegen.

Who knows? Maybe it's my natural style he envies, maybe my boyish charm. Perhaps it's my setup here—having my own agency, no one to answer to, with fine companions at my side." He caught my eye and smiled.

In a perfect example of most magician's dreary style, each and every vehicle was big, black and shiny. Even the smallest looked as if it wanted to be a hearse when it grew up.

Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool.

Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

I never ask boys' opinions on clothes, ever. I really think, unless you think the guy has style, don't ask. So I only ask my girl friends. I don't trust guys' opinions on style!

I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.

My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.

A man without a mustache is like tea without sugar.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Most important, a disciplined team can experiment with its own working style and draw meaningful conclusions.

The effect, to be sure, is precisely that which they describe, and is, furthermore, the actual source of the conception of epic which they themselves hold, and with them all writers decisively influenced by classical antiquity. But the true cause of the impression of "retardation" appears to me to lie elsewhere—namely, in the need of the Homeric style to leave nothing which it mentions half in darkness and unexternalized.

Actions may be judged according to time and place, and their values may change; but style, language (apart from content) are crystallized at the moment.

have to say, wild cat, I like your style!