Quotes About Style

El estilo trascendental no es una experiencia, sino una forma. El estilo trascendental no pretende hacer que el espectador comparta las lágrimas de Hirayama; lo que intenta es purgar esas lágrimas e integrarlas en una forma más extensa.

Langueur Je suis l'Empire à la fin de la décadence, Qui regarde passer les grands Barbares blancs En composant des acrostiches indolents D'un style d'or où la langueur du soleil danse.

Special effects aside, we'll write clearer, cleaner, and more energetic sentences if we fill them with nouns, verbs, and adverbs rather than with prepositions and prepositional phrases.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. This manipulation is sometimes carried out directly by the elites and sometimes indirectly, through populist leaders. As Weffert points out, these leaders serve as intermediaries between the oligarchical elites and the people. The emergence of populism as a style of political action thus coincides causally with the emergence of the oppressed.

I think you create your own hipness.

Cuba en plena construcción del socialismo era de una pureza virginal, de un delicioso estilo Inquisición.

Style is not a replacement for substance, and cannot camouflage a lack of substance.

The ambition should always be to play an elegant game.

From the very beginning it seemed very clear to her that if you were going to succeed in life you succeeded on your own terms, in your own style, you capitalized on your own strengths, you learnt to camouflage your own weaknesses and you didn't get caught up in anyone else's. And Fleur was going to succeed.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

us . . . has become in our country the national and private style. We have established, with awesome verve, the animal of denial as the guiding beast of the nation's life.

narrative that derives from James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. The autobiographical "Camera Eye" sections are in the style of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist, and the "Newsreel" sections quoting

Happy people make good food and fashion.

Ah, that's the Jaguar-Chevrolet 2251 T-bird, the convertible

I'm wearing a pair of high boots, a red turtleneck sweater, a sealskin coat from Groenlandia, and a skirt from Scottish Corner. I've learned that it's always easier to explain things if you're nicely dressed.

McClure was a very generous man who took an active interest in the work of his writers and truly wished to satisfy them. A formal, buttoned-down approach in the office was never his style, and he was well known for the generous salaries he paid (two thousand dollars per article, for Steffens)

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

bright blue slacks and sandals, a paparazzi-sized