Quotes About Style

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls; Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in; Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in; Dresses in which to do nothing at all; Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.

A hat not much the worse for wear.

Imagine then, by miracle, with me,(Ambiguous gifts, as what gods give must be)What could not possibly be there,And learn a style from a despair.

It is because of the wealth of implication which must be carried by sentences in poetry, because they must start from scratch and put the reader in possession of the entire attitude they assume, that the notion of ' sincerity ' is important, and that it is so hard to imitate a style.

Nietzsche: 'myth itself is a kind or style of thinking . It imparts an idea of the universe, but does it in the sequence of events, actions, sufferings.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

The florid style is the reverse of the familiar. The last is employed as an unvarnished medium to convey ideas; the first is resorted to as a spangled veil to conceal the want of them. When there is nothing to be set down but words, it costs little to have them fine.

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

Vigorous writing is concise.

The living room had that depressing look of expensive bad taste.

Nineties style isn't.

The classical players who think all popular music is simple tend not to hear the nuances involved, so naturally they can't play very well in that style. Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects. When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

The WASP style was often portrayed on TV and in movies as a sort of archetypical American look, and some of my new friends seemed to subscribe to it. I decided I'd try it too. I'd tried other looks previously, like Glam dude and Amish geezer, so why not this one?

Every outfit carries cultural baggage of some kind. It took me a while to get a handle on this aspect of performance.

If you try to fit the mold of your organization too much, the rap will be that you are too dull or too dry or too sycophantic. So you might as well be yourself and get points for having the courage of your own style.

Gibt es ihn, diesen Kamikaze-Mann, der eine Frau aufhalten würde, um ihr an den Kopf zu werfen: »Wie können Sie nur solche Schuhe tragen? Sie pferchen Ihre Zehen wie in einem Gulag zusammen. Sie sind der Stalin Ihrer Füße, eine Schande ist das!« Wer wäre zu so etwas fähig?

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

when the subject takes precedence, you not only start the journey towards a personal style but also you discover the sheer joy of visually responding to the world. It solves a lot of doubts, clears away all confusion. The

SS uniform was black and elegant

I probably have six or seven leather jackets, but I tend to wear one at a time for at least a couple of years.