Quotes About Style

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

They should put expiration dates on clothing so we men will know when they go out of style.

When art critics get together they talk about Content, Style, Trend and Meaning, but when painters get together they talk about where can you get the best turpentine.

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

Informality—prepared and practiced informality, not ramshackle casualness—is a keynote of contemporary worship, and worship blossoms when worship space matches worship style.

Each sorcerer has his own connections with the forces of wyrd. In the execution of the shapes subtleties, allusions and personal secrets are revealed. Once you have mastered the copying skill, you will develop your own style and in time your knife will

Ringo's hair is an occupational hazard.

The Elements of Programming Style (with P. J. Plauger)

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

Strunk and White do a great job of reminding us to avoid needless words, but they don't begin to consider all of the ways in which more words might actually be needed. My goal will be to explain why, in many cases, we need to add words to improve our writing, as Faulkner so frequently does, rather than trying to pare our writing down to some kind of telegraphic minimum, as is frequently the case with Hemingway.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.

QUESTION: What is the best way for a person to learn Chinese gung fu? BRUCE LEE: By being himself. The main thing is teaching a man to do his thing, to just be himself. The individual is more important than the style. If a person is awkward, he should not try to be agile. I'm against trying to impose a style on a man. This is an art, an expression of a man's own self.

The creating individual is always more important than any established style or system.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.

Fashion is a cruel mistress.

When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

As I never wear a hat myself, it is indifferent to me what sort of hat I don't wear.

Pop culture didn't actually need an Andy Warhol to make it postmodern. Rock 'n' roll was never anything but a faked-up blues—something that the glam-era Bowie had understood perfectly. (Eno: "Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.")