Top 100 What Is Style Quotes
#1. So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is "content" and the latter is "style."
Isaac Asimov
#2. What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way.
Jean Cocteau
#3. What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
#4. What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what you want to project. Personal style appears to come naturally for some, but for others it can take a while to find it!
Diane Von Furstenberg
#5. Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
Tom Ford
#6. What is the difference between fashion and style? Fashion says, 'Me, too,' and style, 'Only me.'
Geraldine Stutz
#7. Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
Bruce Lee
#8. What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
Orhan Pamuk
#9. My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times I want to dress more elegantly. Most of the time it's what I like to call 'comfortable chic': Giuseppe Zanotti flat sandals, Rag & Bone jeans, slouchy Isabel Marant shirts.
Joan Smalls
#10. A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
W. Somerset Maugham
#12. Be who you are. But be the very best communicator you can possibly be. To do that you must be willing to sacrifice what's comfortable-what has become part of your style-for the sake of what is effective.
Andy Stanley
#13. I've found that I've settled into myself a little bit more in last year and started wearing things that I feel comfortable with and my own style and ... I decided to just embrace the person that I am and the look I like, and what I think is pretty.
Emily Procter
#14. There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.
David Bowie
#15. Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.
William Friedkin
#16. I don't really have a style
I'm just me. My style is kinda whatever I feel like wearing. A lot of girls feel like they need to wear what everyone else is wearing. But it's good to have your own trend. People will start following it!
Miley Cyrus
#17. You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most are in the lyrics that 'show' more than 'tell.' I like to describe what the listener is seeing and let them make up the middle rather than telling them.
Kristian Bush
#18. Everybody changes. I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in the past has made me what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile.
Victoria Beckham
#19. Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.
Elvis Stojko
#20. Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.
Rita Ora
#21. My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.
Erykah Badu
#22. The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."
DJ Spooky
#23. I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you.
Muhammad Ali
#24. Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
Oscar De La Renta
#25. I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.
Nigella Lawson
#26. The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire ... their style flows into me without my intervention, which is what explains the broad range of writers who I've been compared with; it reflects my reading.
Teju Cole
#27. My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and the I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.
Donald Trump
#28. Style has become very important, the whole idea of style, what your personal style is. It's your identity.
Patricia Field
#30. I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.
Shu Qi
#31. I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.
Ralph Lauren
#32. Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.
Aron Nimzowitsch
#33. I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.
Karisma Kapoor
#34. It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.'
Psy
#35. I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.
Donatella Versace
#37. It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else ...
Robert A. Heinlein
#38. What I would suggest to the young people is to not forget this and don't try to get assimilated into today's Hollywood style of movies because I don't think it's going to last long.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#39. Go," Marasi said. "Do what you do best, Waxillium Ladrian."
"Which is what? Break things?"
"Break things," Marasi said, "with style.
Brandon Sanderson
#40. I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.
William Shenstone
#41. The secret is to remain true to your aesthetic vision, so that people can see that you really believe passionately in what you are doing. That way, they can relate to your style. At the same time, you experiment-you try new things.
Giorgio Armani
#42. This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
Condoleezza Rice
#44. I am in no way a confident person - except when it comes to what I'm writing. It's just like, this is what I can do, and I have what I think is a pretty strong voice, for better or worse. It's the style I like to write in.
Megan Amram
#45. What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be incompatible with the emotion of the actor at that moment. The movement, the style, the atmosphere, everything is dictated by the actor.
Xavier Dolan
#46. People speak generally of a plain style and an elaborate style. I think this is wrong, because what is important ... is that poetry should be living ...
Jorge Luis Borges
#47. Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.
Marshall Faulk
#48. Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
Orson Welles
#49. One of the great things about the X Games and the Olympics is being on the international stage. It gives you a cool opportunity to express, not only your personal style, but also your faith and what you believe in and your values.
Nick Goepper
#50. Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story ... But together is raw honesty.
Nikki Sixx
#51. Giving someone their style or bumping up their sense of style to be a better version of what it is, is part of the fun of what I do, and I actually approached Al Sharpton. They didn't come to me.
Carol Friedman
#52. Although arguably, it's my job to dig deep whether I'm improvising or not. It's just their style. That's the way they feel like they get what they want. I mean, they're really good storytellers, so I love being in their hands.
Amanda Peet
#53. I don't think my style of play is what has prevented me from winning major championships. I think that execution has been more of a factor.
Phil Mickelson
#54. For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf.
For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth.
The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic ...
J-Live
#55. Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.
Billy Bob Thornton
#56. Even though there's stuff that I really like that is just a retro sort of style or whatever, I feel like what I'm most excited by is new mixes of things.
Panda Bear
#57. Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
Bill Blass
#58. What I think is great style advice that people have told me is that people who are confident look beautiful. No matter what they're wearing, no matter if they're inappropriately dressed, no matter if their hair's not really done right, eyebrows haven't been tweezed.
Soledad O'Brien
#59. What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
Russell Smith
#60. I love my style of writing. Nope, it's not the most poetic stuff you've ever read but you know, it can evoke emotions and images and smells and sensations, and that is what I set out to do.
Erin M. Truesdale
#61. Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?
Tom Hardy
#62. What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we're comfortable with new lows.
Peter Cundill
#63. Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.
Shannon L. Alder
#64. Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.
Linus Torvalds
#65. This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
Robert Teeter
#66. As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is faultless, except in three particulars." "And what are they?" "A general deficiency of subject, a total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar.
Jane Austen
#67. I think Westlife is very unique: we have a certain sound; we do our thing our way, and we don't try to change too much. I think that's what the fans love about us. We keep giving the fans what they want every year. The style of music never really changes too much.
Shane Filan
#68. I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell,
Harry Belafonte
#69. Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.
Rodney Mullen
#70. When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
Eartha Kitt
#71. We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.
Bill Blass
#72. What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas.
Ed Askew
#73. It's always hard to analyze what your own style is.
Julie Davis
#74. I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.
George Saunders
#75. Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.
Stacy London
#76. In the ring I can tell right away what his style is and I can adapt to it. I'm adjusting to life as a politician. It's different in training but I can stay focused on both.
Manny Pacquiao
#77. When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.
Donny Hathaway
#78. My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?
Ne-Yo
#79. We don't have to make the bible relevant-it is-but we have to show its relevance. What is irrelevant, in my opinion, is our style of communicating it. We are tending to still use the style from 50 years back that doesn't match who we are trying to reach today.
Rick Warren
#80. What is a good advertisement? An advertisement which pleases you because of its style, or an advertisement which sells the most? They are seldom the same.
David Ogilvy
#81. I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.
Alexandre Dumas
#82. The thing with fashion is that when I see something that I like, I just go with it. I don't really go towards one designer or the other. It's just what I like. It could be expensive, it could be cheap. If it fits me, and it's my style, I'll wear it.
Stephanie Sigman
#83. What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line.
David Duchovny
#84. Many Karate teachers teach a watered down style - no hip action and no depth of punching - so it is easy to say that these teachers have no depth to their knowledge. You are what your teacher is, and if he knows a lot, you should be able to demonstrate this knowledge.
Higa Yuchoku
#85. I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.
Dan Auerbach
#86. our culture encourages you [with an anxious attachment style] to believe that many of your needs are illegitimate. But whether they are legitimate or not for someone else is beside the point. They are essential for your happiness, and that is what's important.
Amir Levine
#87. Fashion is what others give you, style is what you give yourself
Lauren Hutton
#88. On Yard Work
What are you doing with that rake? ... No, that is not raking ... What? Different styles of raking? No there is one style, and then there is bullshit. Guess which one you're doing.
Justin Halpern
#89. Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.
Christina Stead
#91. ... But sometimes a person begins with opinions and judgments and valid criticisms, but then things creep in that have nothing to do with forming opinions, and then it's all over with strict logic, and what you end up with is an absurd world republic and beautiful style.
Thomas Mann
#92. Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra.
Florynce Kennedy
#93. What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style.
Austin Kleon
#94. And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art.
Robert Barry
#95. Personal style is about a sense of yourself, a sense of what you believe in and wearing what you like.
Ralph Lauren
#96. Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.
Charles Portis
#97. What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.
Frank Abagnale
#98. As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.
Jeff Goldblum
#99. What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.
Joseph Pulitzer
#100. Just make sure you find your own style rather than going with what everyone else is wearing. If you feel comfortable, it's going to get you noticed in the right way. That's better than worrying about what everyone else is wearing and feeling awkward. That's the most important thing.
Nick Youngquest
