Quotes About Style

The woman serving me was wearing a white sports bra that looked like it had been mauled by tigers--desert isle chic.

As we walked down the boardwalk at the beach, I asked Jordan about his uptick in personal style. It turns out it was one of his 12 Rules for Life that didn't make the final edit. "Dress like the person you want to be," he told me. "I took it from Nietzsche. He once said 'every great man is an actor of his own ideal,' which means you have to act out whatever you want to be, then you'll become it.

He was obviously correct and it's something we are all aware of every day. Dressing well not only can determine what energy you put into the universe, but also what you get in return.

bikini with a short terrycloth cover-up over it.

Despite all that, the uniform had been a total disaster. Troops called it "pajamas" because it did not ride well on anyone, no matter how fit they were.

Too many leaders expect their people to adapt to their particular leadership style. If you want the best performance, look beyond your style and provide feedback tailored to the individual.

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about.

Atwater knew — as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never said aloud — that this was the single great informing conflict of the American psyche. The management of insignificance. It was the great syncretic bond of US monoculture.

basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

had numerous pairs of dress chinos and blue blazers and Topsiders, and a smile that looked as though someone had plugged him in.

Not even the masters of the high/low rhetorical register go higher more panoramically or lower more exuberantly than Wallace—not Joyce, not Bellow, not Amis.

Esta noche y para callarte, Bubú, te diré que tengo que solucionar algunas disputas administrativas con Dios. Te diré que Dios parece tener un estilo de dirección técnica que a mi no me gusta nada. Yo soy bastante antimuerte. Y Dios da toda la impresión de ser bastante promuerte. No sé cómo nos vamos a poner de acuerdo al respecto él y yo, Bubú.

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

The apparel oft proclaims the man

Morrissey was singularly small, a man in his mid-thirties who had once been compared to a ferret. He had a thin trap of a mouth and greased black hair that he perpetually attended, directing it back from his forehead with a clogged comb. He was dressed now, as invariably he was, in flannel trousers and the jacket of a blue striped suit over a blue pullover, and a shirt that was buttoned to the neck but did not have a tie in its collar.

suspenders as he did so, though his shirt wasn't tucked

She was a dark young woman, a little above average in height, dressed in a close-fitting blue riding habit, a pale blue bodice, and a small tricorn hat. Connoisseurs would have disagreed as to whether she was beautiful, but few men would have passed her without a second glance.

It seems to me that here, accidentally, I have betrayed the greatest and ultimate secret of style: we have to know how to delight in the word. If literature generally dares to speak, it is not at all because it is certain of its truth, but only because it is certain of its delight.

Eternal life is great if you have the clothes for it.

Wieczna pustka jest w porz?dku, je?li jest si? odpowiednio ubranym.

Mrs. Vreeland always said, style, not fashion.

por si las moscas salgo a la calle con pantalones nuevos, chamarra de cuero, cien gramos de The Dry Look y mi playera favorita. California is for Lovers. ¿Qué tal que me la encuentro?

Ken estaba convencido de que había redescubierto un arte milenario, así que llamó a su estilo Running Evolution

There are fashions in saying things just as there are fashions in clothes. You wear what other people are wearing not so much because it's attractive but so as not to be conspicuous; so you can go on bind yourself underneath without being noticed too much.