Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Kasparov

Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.

Gabrielle Anwar

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

George Clinton

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

Geezer Butler

During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.

Heinrich Heine

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

Henry Ward Beecher

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.

Helena Christensen

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.

Steven Soderbergh

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.

Steven Soderbergh

I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.

Tommy Bolin

All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing.

Tom Stoppard

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Tom Hayden

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

Tom Brokaw

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

Tina Fey

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

Katherine Anne Porter

A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Katherine Anne Porter

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Kate Micucci

I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.

Mark Leyner

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

Mary Schmich

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

Martin Freeman

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Martin Freeman

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

Mark Mothersbaugh

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

Nikki Giovanni

I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

Nicole Polizzi

I don't read. I don't like to read 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. It's not my style.

Nicki Minaj

I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The style depends on the subject.

Minnie Pearl

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

John Waters

Technique is nothing more than failed style.

John Scott

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

John Sayles

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.

Marilyn Horne

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Nalo Hopkinson

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

Philip Johnson

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.