My Style Rules Quotes

#1. Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

Lapo Elkann

#3. I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with ... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.

Anja Rubik

#4. Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Rush during our early days. Page's loose style of playing showed an immense confidence, and there are no rules to his playing.

Alex Lifeson

#5. I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

Bryan Cranston

#6. I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

Bob Dole

#7. I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Louis Aragon

#8. I eat my heart out alone.

Azar Nafisi

#9. A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

Paul Rand

#10. I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

Billy Sheehan

#11. It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

#12. Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have spoiled my natural style; made me observe caution; would have hedged me with rules.

Isaac Asimov

#13. Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

Michael Kors

#14. But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth - that the first draft is more creative and everything after that is ruining creativity.

K.M. Soehnlein

#15. These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.

Lucian Of Samosata

#16. A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.

H.P. Lovecraft

#17. I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.

Robert Kurson

#18. I think it is great to unite all kickboxing styles under one set of rules.

Duke Roufus

#19. The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules

Kaz Cooke

#20. New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.

Benjamin Booker

#21. I've never considered myself a femme fatale as I've never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.

Scarlett Johansson

#22. Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

#23. In my run-ins with Christians ... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.

Penn Jillette

#24. I eat three meals a day and three juices a day.

Georgia May Jagger

#25. I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole." "Why?

Alex Flinn

#26. Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of play was always a bit tough for me, but of course I had to, because the rules of tennis dont state that having a beautiful game is required to become No. 1.

Martina Hingis

#27. Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself.

Stacy London

#28. Nor would he condemn democracy outright, allowing that it might be appropriate for some countries. Still, he argued that democracy would bring disintegration to Russia, which needed "firm authority.

Stephen Kotkin

#29. If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends.

Nina Garcia

#30. California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

Parker Stevenson

#31. Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

Ayn Rand

#32. For me, style is about forgetting the rules or creating new ones.

Elizabeth Heyert

#33. I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#34. The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Oscar Wilde

#35. I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

Shay Carl

#36. I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.

Lori R. Lopez

#37. It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.

Susannah Constantine

#38. Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#39. The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.

Jasper Fforde

#40. The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.

John Scarlett

#41. Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules ... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

Anthony Trollope

#42. When his parents announced the newest rules to Jamal, he defiantly announced back to them that, as a matter of principle, he would not be "manipulated or forced into complying with a Fascist parenting style.

James T. Webb

#43. Style isn't an excuse to cook without a standard. Style just determines the set of rules you choose.

Eddie Huang

#44. But if you are going to say you are unnerved by how Turk Bauer is filled with hate, you must admit that Ruth, too, is filled with hate. You heard it,

Jodi Picoult