Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got to play our style of basketball. (Being physical) is not our style of basketball.

Richard Whately

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Richard Whately

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Toyo Ito

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

Woodrow Wilson

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.

Vinnie Vincent

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

Robert Pattinson

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 Evans

Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

Willem Dafoe

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

Witold Gombrowicz

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.

Wim Wenders

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

Twyla Tharp

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

Voltaire

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Voltaire

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.

William Strunk, Jr.

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

Walter Savage Landor

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Rick Riordan

Seriously, who has monogrammed pajamas?

Robert Glasper

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

Sadie Frost

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

Ruggiero Ricci

Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Vladimir Nabokov

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

Willow Smith

My style kinda comes from the music I listen to.

If you walk into my kitchen, it's all retro, 1950s style.

Sarah Brightman

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

I have one style of speaking, ... It's the same at Yankee Stadium, at home, in the classroom, or when I lector at Mass.

Nate Berkus

My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.

Miles Davis

For me, music and life are all about style.

Marcel Proust

Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.

Josef Albers

I have invented the Thermometer style.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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.