Quotes About Style

Your style can be an artistic part of your personal leadership journey.

Manner is everything," an elegant translation of that judicial axiom: "Form over content.

Man sieht, daß sich in allen Schichten der Gesellschaft die Bräuche gleichen und nur in der Art, dem Äußerlichen und der Nuance verschieden sind. Auch die große Gesellschaft hat ihr Rotwelsch; aber dieses Rotwelsch heißt ›der Stil‹.

The hat, above all, struck me; it is a sort of truncated column, and does not adapt itself in the least to the shape of the head; but I am told it is easier to bring about a revolution than to invent a graceful hat.

It is charming to totter into vogue.

Lo que primero llamaba la atención era la ausencia total de muebles, lo cual era posible gracias a la utilización sistemática de pequeñas diferencias de nivel a la altura del suelo. De este modo, las zonas destinadas a dormitorios eran excavaciones rectangulares de cuarenta centímetros de profundidad: uno bajaba a la cama en vez de subirte a ella. Las bañeras eran igualmente grandes pilas redondas cuyo reborde estaba situado a ras de suelo.

Steve Woolgar develops his views in confrontational style in Science: The Very Idea (London: Tavistock Publications, 1988

As I lean back in my chair, it seems like only yesterday as I think back to the mid-'80s, a time of mullets, Jordache jeans and skinny ties.

Tuer confère un style à l'existence. C'est ce possible continuellement présent qui, par son insertion inavouable dans la vie courante, injecte à celle-ci le tonus sans quoi elle se résume à une reptation asthénique et à l'interminable expérimentation de l'ennui.

To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.

Gonzo journalism… is a style of "reporting" based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism—and the best journalists have always known this.

We are all glamorous, some more so than others.

Those bands, in their style and approach, that's what I call tits-and-ass metal," comments Rob Halford of Judas

Reading the Koran on its own terms, trying to interpret it without resorting to commentaries, is a difficult and questionable exercise because of the nature of the text-its allusive and referential style and its grammatical and logical discontinuities, as well as our lack of sure information about its origins and the circumstances of its composition. Often such a reading seems arbitrary and necessarily inconclusive. G. R. Hawting

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

He put on his silk shirts and his gators to go out and do his thing, you know?

I was switching up my lyrical style, but I wasn't expecting the impact that one B side was going to have, that it would pretty much transform the hip-hop sound of the West Coast and give birth to an entire genre called gangsta rap.

Stay Classy!

Cloaks are nice. You can wear a cloak and have nothing on under it at all. And you can go anywhere you want like that!

As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

If you write short, crisp sentences without any sinces or whens or althoughs, try stringing varied sentences together by using subordinate conjunctions. If you already rely on subordinate conjunctions, try rebalancing your sentences with ands and buts and fors and sos. Does the change of conjunctions change your style?

Phrases can build grace into sentences. Taut declarations lend clarity, but too many of them can start to sound like a Dick-and-Jane story. A strategically placed phrase can turn a staccato burst into a more lyrical sentence. This is what we mean by "turning a phrase"—using our command of language and our mastery of the rhythms of a sentence to affect style as well as substance

True prose stylists carry on an impassioned lifelong love affair with words, banishing mediocre ones like so many uninteresting suitors, burnishing the good ones till they shimmer. Be infatuated, be seduced, be obsessed.