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Quotes About Style

You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, and lifeless hands.
~ Internet meme, c. 2012
There's the Oxford comma, but I like the Shatner comma. It's when you pepper them in, so, you know where, to add, dramatic pauses.
~ Nicole Leigh Shaw, 2014
My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.
~ E.B. White (1899–1985)
"Mr. Harte, what books shall I read to acquire a perfect style?" "Oh, lord!" he groaned, swinging around in his chair, "for pity's sake, don't read anything! Just write! Write! Write!"
~ Josephine Clifford McCrackin
I do not create a fashionable aesthetic… I create a style based on life.
~ Issey Miyake
I really like black. I love wearing black, different aesthetics and shades. I like earth tones. Those are my go-tos.
~ Jaylen Brown
My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
~ Olivier Theyskens
Glamour is beyond beauty and beyond age. It's like sex appeal.
~ Carolina Herrera
I am just as comfortable in sweats and sneakers as I am in a dress and heels. Attitude is everything!
~ Blac Chyna
You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
~ Rob Sheffield
Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
~ Shawn Ashmore
I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It's much more funny. It's much more sophisticated. It's much more arrogant, like a man with feminine attitude. I love pants.
~ Sonia Rykiel
It's not true that clothes look better on skinny girls; what counts is the attitude.
~ Sonia Rykiel
I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker colour.
~ Wednesday Addams
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
~ H. L. Mencken
Good things happen to those who dress well.
~ Hadley Davis
Fuck, if only 'aesthetic idiom' didn't sound so damn poncy.
~ Hal Duncan
As early as 1915, Harper's Bazaar declared, "The woman who hasn't at least one Chanel is hopelessly out of fashion … This season the name of Chanel is on the lips of every buyer.
~ Hal Vaughan
Seinfeld was typically American in that show. He was a pretty funny guy, but he had no sense of style. Tacky like a Texan tux. Tasteless dressing and tasteful jokes. That's Seinfeld for me. I would have preferred it the other way around.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
The Dead Sea Scrolls predated the earliest extant text—Masoretic—by more than a millennium.3 Yet when compared to one another, differences in style and spelling were noted but no significant difference in substance.
~ Hank Hanegraaff
the words, actions and sufferings of Jesus form an aesthetic unity, held together by the 'style' of unconditional love.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Happy If I saw myself dressed like that, I'd have to kick my own ass.
~ Happy Gilmore
The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
~ Hardy Amies
Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool.
~ Harry Shum Jr.