Quotes about style
style addresses speech
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. Voltaire
style acquire
To acquire style, begin by affecting none. William Strunk, Jr.
style spirit language
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. Walter Savage Landor
style matter great-men
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. Woodrow Wilson
style genius kind
Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius. William Saroyan
style firsts rewriting
If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more. William James
style important trying
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress. Salma Hayek
style magic world
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery. Rudy Rucker
style kind
The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles. Van Morrison
style trying musician
Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.
style way fundamentals
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. Twyla Tharp
style important voters
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates. Robert Teeter
style today zeppelins
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today. Robert Plant
style fancy murder
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Vladimir Nabokov
style matter firsts
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
style
My style kinda comes from the music I listen to. Willow Smith
style wanted
I wanted my style to be very recognizable. Robert Barry
style cheese records
They were recorded without processed cheese. Listen to old '50s records. The style may be dated, but the recording isn't. Richard Lloyd
style kind film
I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than so-called realism on film. There are films I love that have kind of a muted or realistic style, but for me on any given day I have more moments during the course of a day that feel like a Fellini movie than I do a Cassavettes movie. Rian Johnson
style profile walks
I'm gonna walk down the aisle in style and profile. Ric Flair
style
Content dictates form and style. Stephen Sondheim
style world remarkable
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world. Stephen Gardiner
style libertarian republican
I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style. Roger Stone