Style Quotations | Page 6

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.

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

Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

It's not my style to either wear minimum clothes, to strip, or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do good work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept.

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.

Style is an expression of your individuality. Who you are and what your mood is, is what you wear.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

My genetics are good, but they aren't crazy He-Man style.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.

I am always being stopped for style advice, and I love it! The way we dress says so much about ourselves, and I love when I can help others take control of that.

On shooting days, I have all my accessories, and I style the final look.

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

I'm not a fan of chrome wheels. I sort of like brushed, brushed steel, more European style.

I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.

What is magical and mystifying to me about style is not that by seeing we can believe. It is that eventually, we can believe, because we can see we can embrace change the more we can make it tangible.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

I still got a lot to learn about fashion. I'm somebody who experiments, somebody who's finding their way. I'm young, and I don't really know if there's any guide to style in what's right and what's wrong. I just dress as an extension of how I'm feeling. If I feel crazy, then I'm gonna rock something crazy.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.

I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

I'm really inspired by British style, like Kate Moss and Sienna Miller.

It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.

I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.

I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else.

Some of my favorite pieces were my mom's, and most of those she actually hand made. I would say if my style reflects anyone or anything, it's her.

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

My daily style is easy and effortless - I don't like to take too much time getting ready.

It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.