Quotes About Style

#1. Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

Martin Amis

#2. The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

Arne Glimcher

#3. The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

Amy Vanderbilt

#4. I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Toyo Ito

#5. I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

Stacy London

#6. At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

Camille Pissarro

#7. Your nails are a way to speak your style without having to say a word.

Tammy Taylor

#8. The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#9. It was never my desire to revolutionize fashion, to make clothes that could be in a museum. I want to create clothes that have a certain style, but I want to see them used. I want to see people enjoy the things I've made.

Marc Jacobs

#10. Each time you sit down to write, you should cleanse your linguistic palate by reading some things that are vastly unlike what you've been writing. As a warm-up activity, you might try actively imitating a writing style different from your own. It's hard to do and highly unpriming.

Michael Erard

#11. Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.

Robert Genn

#12. A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Carolina Herrera

#13. What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist ... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own ... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.

Jim Rowe

#14. If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It's looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.

Tom Ford

#15. I am not looking like Armani today and somebody else tomorrow. I look like Ralph Lauren. And my goal is to constantly move in fashion and move in style without giving up what I am.

Ralph Lauren

#16. I can't even fathom myself from twenty-four hours ago. I was so busy following my rotten little heart, Disney princess-style. I did end up in a palace, so that's cool.

Stefan Bachmann

#17. Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.

Ralph Lauren

#18. It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

Markus Zusak

#19. Style is the outcome of constraint.

Andre Maurois

#20. Eminem found a legendary voucher in the form of Dr. Dre. He also perfected a unique performance style: as Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in "Haiku for Eminem" after the release of The Marshall Mathers LP, "The way you sound black/when you are conversating/but white when you rap.

Matthew Gasteier

#21. Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say as accurately and effectively as he can, his style will take care of itself.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

Elaine De Kooning

#23. I was working more on a primal, instinctive level. And it just seemed to suit me; it seemed to suit my concentration span, it seemed to suit my personal style of performance, and I have fallen in love with film acting.

Ron Perlman

#24. Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Stendhal

#25. For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

Ben Jonson

#26. Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson ... Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.

Sydney J. Harris

#27. Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do.

Reed Morano

#28. Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

Karina Longworth

#29. Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

Martin Kippenberger

#30. A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's brush- is the thumbprint of her whole person- her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms.

Patricia Lee Gauch

#31. The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.

Max Azria

#32. In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

Paul Allen

#33. That's because those pages got torn to shreds when you left, now you both are in different chapters. He wants you - like always, and you want the hot guy down the street. Typical Frankie and Brody style. You guys dance one wild tango, if you ask me.

A.M. Willard

#34. Who could step in while I take a break in your stock-standard resort-style vacation destination, whether it be tropical or of the ski trip variety? The answer, of course, is nobody,

Markus Zusak

#35. My style was always to spread out rather than to move up.

Andy Warhol

#36. A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.

Julia Bacha

#37. It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.

Eric Clapton

#38. Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive

Rayne Hall

#39. I recommend hiding for a good year and having no pregnancy style. That's what I recommend. If you can do it, hide. Never leave the house.

Kim Kardashian

#40. I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

Michael Biehn

#41. I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

Sullivan Stapleton

#42. Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.

Jerry Yang

#43. Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

Jim Hightower

#44. Fashion is expensive. Style is not. Some of the most stylish girls I know are certainly not the wealthiest.

Nina Garcia

#45. There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#46. My style is the paparazzi approach which is spontaneous, unrehearsed, off-guard. The beauty I'm after is inherent, more natural. Genuine emotions, real emotions, that's what I look for.

Ron Galella

#47. Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more.

Olivia Palermo

#48. It's hard to live mansion style when you have a mobile home budget

Bryon Decker

#49. The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

Joseph Joubert

#50. I'm excited to watch slope style and halfpipe. And then, of course, when my events are done, I get to go to hockey, which is always entertaining. I also like figure skating. I think every girl grew up watching figure skating.

Julia Mancuso

#51. I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in.

Ralph Lauren

#52. Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.

Harvey MacKay

#53. Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.

Rhianna Pratchett

#54. Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

David Gemmell

#55. I'm interested in longevity, timelessness, style - not fashion.

Ralph Lauren

#56. People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Louisa May Alcott

#57. Style is the form of the ideal; rhythm is its movement.

Victor Hugo

#58. I love you, puppy," I told him, just because I could.
"You just love my doggie style.

Nicole Peeler

#59. He stared at her steadily. If we were eating Gypsy-style, sitting before a fire, I would offer you the choicest bites of meat. The soft inside of the bread. The sweetest sections of fruit.

Lisa Kleypas

#60. 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.

William Hazlitt

#61. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

#62. Jodi in tactical gear was something to behold. Pert, a lot shorter than I am, blond hair tucked under a helmet, cinched into body armor never intended to mold to the body of a curvy woman. Ugly but efficient attire. Someone needs to talk to armor designers about female body shapes and style.

Faith Hunter

#63. You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing.

Irene Sharaff

#64. There's times I've been quite nervous doing session work, such as when I'm asked to play the violin in a 'country and western' style or a 'gypsy' style. I'm not very good at that sort of playing at all. I think it's important as a session musician to have your own voice.

Ric Sanders

#65. Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word.

Virginia Postrel

#66. Death is my art form--when I fight, I'm a ballerina. Graceful. Chi lacks my grace, but makes up for it in energy and enthusiasm. His fighting style is like breakdancing--strong and frenetic with some really sweet moves. Jo's is . . .the Macarena. Ugly but gets the job done.

Eliza Crewe

#67. There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence.

Guy Forget

#68. The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness.

Jerome K. Jerome

#69. Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

Martin Freeman

#70. I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.

Flula Borg

#71. I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment.

Malgorzata Szumowska

#72. For me style has something to do with your inner attitude towards clothes and the awareness what sits well on yourself.

Matthew Williamson

#73. I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

ASAP Ferg

#74. The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar Wilde

#75. Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

Debby Applegate

#76. Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.

Bruce Lee

#77. Brands are like shoes, they come in sizes and styles; one size & style doesn't fit everyone.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#78. 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

#79. If something is good, it doesn't go out of style every six months. The fashion wheel of today doesn't have to go as quickly as it was pushed in the 80's.

Helmut Lang

#80. Your eye makeup says so much about you and your style.

Laura Mercier

#81. You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Ayn Rand

#82. Style requires digesting who we are.

Natalie Goldberg

#83. I'm much more for style and not trend-driven.

Ian Astbury

#84. And the too much of my speaking:
heaped up round the little
crystal dressed in the style of your silence.

Paul Celan

#85. Very bad indeed. Defoe never acquired a really good style, and can in no true sense be called a "master of the English tongue." Nature had gifted Defoe with untiring energy, a keen taste for public affairs,

Daniel Defoe

#86. You have found your style at last. You wrote with no thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it,

Louisa May Alcott

#87. You're not pretty, and you'll never be pretty. But, it doesn't matter. You have something much better. You have style.

Iris Apfel

#88. I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

Maggie Grace

#89. It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.

Ruggiero Ricci

#90. For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.

Rufus Sewell

#91. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

Al Hirt

#92. People who are lazy may smoke pot and remain lazy. That is aging the person finding a drug to help one create the vegetable style the person wants, as the person cannot live in the real world.

Steven Machat

#93. My stroller of choice is the Graco Classic. It's the '70s Buick of strollers, bulky with a complete absence of style. There are no good lines on the Graco. Yes, it has cup holders, like any self-respecting car or stroller does these days, but the luxuries stop there.

Shawn Amos

#94. With respect to excellence of style and composition, it may perhaps be said that to practised ears the most pleasing music is such as has the merit of novelty, added to refinement, and ingenious contrivance; and to the ignorant, such as is most familiar and common.

Charles Burney

#95. I'm not just influenced by the '60s - it's who I am. I grew up with Allen Ginsberg and Che Guevara. I flirted with various forms of communism when it was way out of style. It was this really strange and creative time in music and culture, and it was fabulous.

Thom Mayne

#96. I never just went to look for clothes and style; I always find that wherever I go.

Iris Apfel

#97. The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.

Psy

#98. I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

Robert Pattinson

#99. Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.

Billy Joel

#100. So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.

Tim Gunn