Style Quotes · Page 101

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

— Florence King

My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd…

— Judit Polgar

I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make…

— Anja Rubik

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is…

— Oliver Stone

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back…

— Dorothy Parker

Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the…

— Jim Rohn

I think that in each stage of your career, you need certain things to improve your game and to develop your style…

— Arjen Robben

Of course there are technical aspects to it, but every kicker has his own style. You have to find your own way,…

— Owen Farrell

Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless,…

— John Carroll

For me, there's always an early-'70s sense. There's always a sprinkle of it - if I do it exactly like that, sometimes…

— Paul Weller

What I think is great style advice that people have told me is that people who are confident look beautiful. No matter…

— Soledad O'Brien

A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if…

— Marcel Proust

Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing…

— Gil J Wolman

I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever…

— Bun B

The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for…

— Josef Muller-Brockmann

People have not changed. The media and its love for the fashion world behind the scenes has changed, giving people more access…

— Laure Heriard-Dubreuil

I feel that not only have I been out there promoting my style of karate, but just promoting the traditional martial arts,…

— Lyoto Machida

Style depends more on how you carry yourself in the clothes than the clothes alone, but a killer pair of heels doesn't…

— Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

I think of young Chinese women today as being incredibly modern and are taking a lot from Western style and tailoring.

— Anna Wintour

I think my style is a mix of quirky, eclectic, bright, and fun, with a really sophisticated feminine silhouette.

— Elaine Welteroth

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of…

— Mos Def

A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is…

— E. B. White

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color.…

— Parker Stevenson

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of…

— George Orwell

I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and…

— Joe Louis Walker

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

I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately,…

— Kat Graham

The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be…

— Terence McKenna

I go to the gym four days a week, and focus on my upper body and lower body on alternate days. I…

— Diana Penty

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

— Michael Kors

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher…

— LeRoy Neiman

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

— Don DeLillo

I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of…

— Jill Magid

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style,…

— Daniel Tammet

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

— Susan Sontag

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different…

— Eugene Chadbourne

I am always being stopped for style advice, and I love it! The way we dress says so much about ourselves, and…

— Nina Garcia

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it.…

— Catherine Ndereba

It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing…

— Susannah Constantine

My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminine body…

— Charlotte Rampling