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Quotes About Style

I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.
~ Phyllis Diller
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
~ Renata Adler
I'm from Texas…the bigger the hair, the closer to God!
~ Lilly Ghalichi
Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed!
~ Phyllis Diller
I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies.
~ Phyllis Diller
That is her style of beauty.
~ George Orwell, 1984
She's beautiful, ' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily, ' said Julia.'That is her style of beauty, ' said Winston.
~ George Orwell, 1984
Added pressure and responsibility should not change one's leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists.
~ Mark W. Boyer
The moment is not over when you have found the right fit in your style. Begin with knowing who you really are and apologize for nothing. There are no mistakes when it comes to personal expression.
~ Steven Cuoco
Fashion is all about madness.
~ Reiss Field
Fashion is not the latest trends. Because every trend is not for everyone.It is what suits you".
~ Reiss Field
isn't wearing the right clothes, it's wearing clothes right.
~ James Wilson
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
~ James Wolcott
When I talk about free indirect style I am really talking about point of view, and when I talk about point of view I am really talking about the perception of detail, and when I talk about detail I'm really talking about character, and when I talk about character I am really talking about the real , which is at the bottom of my inquiries.
~ James Wood
The sentence pulsates, moves in and out, toward the character and away from her—when we reach "huddled" we are reminded that an author allowed us to merge with his character, that the author's magniloquent style is the envelope within which this generous contract is carried.
~ James Wood
I wake up the next morning and dress in all black, secret spy style. My mother eyes me and asks if I'm depressed, and I say, "No, I'm just cool.
~ Jami Attenberg
An independent woman selects her own perfume—scents to accent her style, her personality, her ambition. —DB
~ Jan Moran
A flaming red flapper dress, a sleek black dress with full, satin purple sleeves and a matching flounce, a summery cotton frock with a cheerful red poppy print, and a musketeer's gold-trimmed jacket tumbled out of the pile of clothing. A mound of scarves fluttered onto the bed. Marge fingered the frayed, tasseled edge of a silk jacquard scarf in shades of amethyst and emerald green.
~ Jan Moran
You are I are not exactly fashion-forward.
~ Jana Deleon
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
~ Jane Austen
We live entirely in the dressing room now, which I like very much; I always feel so much more elegant in it than in the parlour.
~ Jane Austen
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
~ Jane Austen
There are only two kinds of women in the world, those who love shoes and those who had the misfortune to be born without the ability to experience total bliss on finding a pair of perfectly designed pumps in the right size at half price.
~ Jane Eldershaw
In the poems of . . . Robinson Jeffers, it is a style of consciousness rather than of language we see most in an altered light, some shadowed corner of experience newly illumined and made perceptible by words.
~ Jane Hirshfield