Style Quotes:

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

- Aaliyah

topic: Individuality, Style, Pushing

That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

- Aaron Allston

topic: Order, Interesting, Style, Sneaky

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

topic: Health, Style, Female

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

topic: Style, Fame, Glamour

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

source: Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

topic: Style, Unapologetic, Architecture, Postmodernism

Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

topic: Dream, Men, Style, Wasteland

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

topic: Style, Way, World

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

topic: Style, Goes On, Unbearable, Urban Life

In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

source: Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

topic: Paris, Consistency, Style

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

- Adam Garcia

topic: Sleep, Thinking, Style

People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.

- Adam Grant

source: "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success". Book by Adam Grant, www.businessinsider.com. 2013.

topic: People, Style, Trying

Isn't television glamourous?

- Adam Savage

topic: Style, Television

Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.

- Adrianne Palicki

topic: Inspiration, Style

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.

- Ai Weiwei

topic: Song, Media, Style, Spoof, Gangnam Style

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

- Al Hirt

topic: Style, Littles

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

- Alain Resnais

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Style, Might, Film

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

- Alan Moore

topic: Years, Style, Fading Away, Old Photographs

Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got; as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.

- Alan Shearer

topic: Years, Style, Finding Yourself, Look After Yourself

Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Shopping, Soul, Style

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

- Albert Camus

topic: Time, Style, Liberty

Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.

- Albert Hadley

topic: Thinking, Style, May, Flair

Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage...To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.

- Albert Pike

topic: Style, Paganism, Jehovah

Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.

- Alexa Chung

source: "Interview: Alexa Chung covers our spring fashion issue". Interview with Rachel LeWinter, www.timeout.com. April 21, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Years, Style

It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think, more than that, French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.

- Alexa Chung

source: "Maje Fetes Alexa Chung in a French Meets British Fashion Collab". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Style, France, French Woman

London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Fashion, New York, Style, Fashion Week

My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

- Alexander Lukashenko

source: "Profile: Alexander Lukashenko". news.bbc.co.uk. January 09, 2007.

topic: Country, People, Style

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

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Style, Taste, Subtlety

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Style, Want, Proud, Personal Style

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Style, Together, Individual Style, Inspiring Fashion

Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Expression, Purple, Style, Regal, Pompous

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Style, Literature, Immortal

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

- Alexander Theroux

topic: Self, Views, Style, Washing, No Anger

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

- Alexander Theroux

topic: Stupid, Style, Enemy, Crucifixion

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

- Alfred Adler

topic: Style, Suffering, Opponents, Happy Family, Life And Family

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

- Alfred Adler

topic: Goal, Unity, Style

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Stupidity, Style, Information

Self-plagiarism is style.

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Self, Style, Plagiarism

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

- Alfred Nobel

topic: Style, Reason, Heavy

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

- Ali Smith

topic: Style, Stories, Ingredients, Literary Style

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.

- Alice Temperley

topic: Style, Twists, Classic, Eclectic Style, Eclectic

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.

- Alicia Keys

topic: Horse, Style, Rolling, Wild Horses, Alleys

The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

- Alison Lurie

topic: Fashion, Men, Style

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

- Aloe Blacc

source: "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

topic: Hip Hop, Style, Different

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture

- Alvar Aalto

source: "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

topic: Essence, Style, Development, Organic Life

I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.

- Aly Raisman

topic: Princess, Thinking, Style

I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.

- Amber Sealey

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Style, Monsters, Gains, Gaining Confidence

If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

- Ambrose

topic: Rome, Style, Elsewhere

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Men, Style, Mind

A good style fits like a good costume.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Style, Costumes, Fit

The genre [of hard-partying girls] seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.

- Amy Argetsinger

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Girl, Party, Style

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

- Amy Sherman-Palladino

topic: Drama, Style, Pace

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

- Amy Vanderbilt

source: Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

topic: Fashion, Understanding, Style, Best Dressed

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

- Anatoly Chubais

topic: Country, Two, Style

Style, I've got no style.

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Style, Chess

Style? I have no style.

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Style

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.

- Andre Kertesz

topic: Style, Kind, Difficult

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Style, Culture, Taste

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

- Andre Malraux

topic: Style, Age, May

Style is the outcome of constraint.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Style, Outcomes, Constraints

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

- Andrew S. Gilbert

topic: Music, Style, Jazz, Musical Style

I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Thinking, Who I Am, Style, Meat And Potatoes, Everyman

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.

- Angie Stone

topic: Style, Television, Shows

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

- Anita Baker

topic: Thinking, Style, Doing You

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

- Anita Desai

source: "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

topic: Writing, Style, Trying

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

- Anita Loos

topic: Style, Gowns, Sawdust, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Evening Gowns

I've always loved high style in low company.

- Anita Loos

topic: Style, Lows, Company

If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who is making a point out of anger, ideology, inflexibility, or resentment would presumably construct a flimsy argument. So why can't the argument itself be dismembered rather than the speaker's personal style or hidden motives? Why the evasions?

- Ann Coulter

topic: Stupid, Self, Style

I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.

- Anna Faris

topic: Style, Bars, Clubs

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

- Anna Ford

source: 1979 In the Observer, 23 Sep.

topic: Style, Television, Faces

The Trump Card is appealing, grounded, smart, and has a sense of humor. Ivanka Trump proves that believing in yourself and working hard never go out of style.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Smart, Believe, Style

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!

- Anne McCaffrey

topic: Writing, Vocabulary, Style

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.

- Annie Leibovitz

topic: Artist, Vocabulary, Style, Different Styles

To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

- Anthony Giddens

source: Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Self, Style, Degrees

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

- Anthony Mackie

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, People, Style

I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

- Anthony Michael Hall

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Style, Actors And Actresses, Hollywood Glamour

Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.

- Anuj

topic: Real, Style, Different, Different Styles

Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche.

- Apolo Ohno

topic: Hard Work, Perfect, Style

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

- Ariel Gore

topic: Mother, Kids, Style, Benign, Parenting Styles

The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

- Aristotle

topic: Style, Metaphor, Command

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

- Aristotle

topic: Law, Style, Deities

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

- Arlene Croce

topic: Reality, Style, Looks

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

- Armin van Buuren

source: Twitter post from Apr 27, 2011

topic: Style, Prisoner, Trance, Electronic Music, Djs

From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There is no longer even any consistency in absurdities; the development has been wound up, and what comes now already exists: the syncretism of a muddle of all styles and possibilities, post-history.

- Arnold Gehlen

topic: Art, Consistency, Style, Muddle

Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

- Art Spiegelman

topic: Style, World, Firsts, Trademarks

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

- Arthur Quinn

source: Arthur Quinn (2012). “Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase”, p.5, Routledge

topic: Style, Frogs, Language

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Giving, Style, Currency

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Beautiful, Style, Mind, Physiognomy, Insipid

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Writing, Style, Firsts

He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

- Arthur Symons

source: Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

topic: Beauty, Perfect, Style, Clearness

Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: People, Evil, Style, Too Much Power

It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.

- Asger Jorn

topic: Art, Eye, Style, Folk Art, Nordic

I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic.

- Ashley Greene

topic: Fashion, Style, Accessories

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

- Ashley Madekwe

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Style, Finals, Accessories

I've teamed up with BaubleBar to curate a collection of gorgeous jewelry pieces. I worked closely with the BaubleBar team to design a collection that encompasses my style and all of my go to pieces.

- Ashley Madekwe

topic: Team, Design, Style

I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.

- Ashley Olsen

topic: Inspirational, Fashion, Style, Poke

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspiring, People, Style, Why Change

To pull off any look, wear it with confidence.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Fashion, Style, Looks

Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.

- August Wilson

topic: Ideas, Style, Ends

The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.

- Augustine Birrell

source: Augustine Birrell (1923). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920”

topic: Wise, Views, Style, Narration

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Motivational, House, Style, Kitties, Chandeliers

I have my own style that happens to be different from everyone else in Hollywood. My inspiration is me.

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Inspiration, Style, Hollywood, My Own Style

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

- Ayelet Waldman

topic: Philosophy, Practice, Style, Parenting Styles

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: Order, Years, Style

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Guy, Style, Saws

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

- Babyface

topic: Style, Band, Materials

... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Availability, Style, Popcorn, Life Style, Serious Life

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.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Hurt, Feet, Style

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: White, House, Style

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

- Barry Manilow

topic: Style, World, Great American, Eighty

To me, he has his own style. He doesnt remind me any more of myself than I did (other tailbacks). I did things to remind people of Tony Dorsett, but it was a different style. Hes a guy who can catch balls like Marshall Faulk or somebody like that.

- Barry Sanders

topic: People, Guy, Style, Different Styles

I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

- Bella Thorne

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Style, Sound, That Girl

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

- Ben Affleck

topic: Gay, Thinking, Style

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Art, Style, Matter

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.

- Ben Kingsley

topic: Thinking, People, Style

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

- Ben Mezrich

topic: Writing, Style, Trying, Writing Nonfiction

Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

- Ben Shahn

topic: Artist, Style, Peculiar, Personal Style

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

- Benjamin Bratt

topic: School, Style, Training, Portrayal

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Men, Thinking, Style

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Style

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

- Bernard Arnault

topic: Style, Arms, Certain

I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.

- Bernard Hopkins

topic: Motivation, Style, Steps

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

- Bess Myerson

topic: Style, Rooms, Sitting, Conniving

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

- Beth Ditto

topic: Numbers, Style, Life Is

A woman who has style doesn't necessarily need designers - designer wear. A woman who has style can put on any frock or dress or pant or whatever and still bring something to it.

- Bethann Hardison

source: "Model Remembers Oscar De La Renta As An 'Extraordinary Gentleman'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. October 21, 2014.

topic: Style, Dresses, Needs

There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially with small to medium sized companies. There's increasing evidence that a more flexible management style, where responsibility is distributed up and down the line, is what works best. And that kind of management style is one that will allow individual workers more flexibility - men and women.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Responsibility, Men, Style, Command And Control

Love is something that never goes out of style.

- Beyonce Knowles

topic: Love Is, Style

Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that.

- Beyonce Knowles

topic: Love Is, People, Style

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

- Bidzina Ivanishvili

source: "Bidzina Ivanishvili: the eccentric billionaire chasing Georgia's leadership" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.

topic: Government, Style, Soviet

Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.

- Big Daddy Kane

source: Song: Smooth Operator, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Style, Frontin

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

- Bill Blass

topic: Fashion, Style, Matter, Fashion Designer, Stylish

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

- Bill Blass

topic: Drawing, Style, Cocktails, Terrace

Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.

- Bill Blass

topic: Fashion, Individuality, Style

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

- Bill Bruford

topic: Style, Weakness, Helpful

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

- Bill Griffith

topic: Drawing, Style, Rich, Drawbacks

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

- Bill Laswell

topic: Ideas, Guy, Style, Trendy

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Style, Desire, Ability

I just wanted a style of music all my own.

- Bill Monroe

topic: Music, Style, Wanted

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

- Bill Nighy

topic: Dad, Style, Attractive

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story

- Bill Sienkiewicz

topic: Mean, Style, Different

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.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

topic: Style, Would Be, Want

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Writing, Style, Kind, Stream Of Consciousness

You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

- Billy Collins

topic: Writing, Voice, Style, Embellishment

Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

- Billy Crystal

topic: Dad, Home, Style

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

- Billy Sheehan

source: "USA Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan". www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

topic: Unique, Style, Musician

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

- Billy Sheehan

source: "USA Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan". www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

topic: Style, Fans, Different, Different Styles

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

- Birdy

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Giving, Style

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

- Bjork

topic: Style, Beard, Hermits

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

- Black Francis

source: Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006.

topic: People, Style, Musician, Music Theory, Writing Style

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Writing, Style, Natural

Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.

- Bobbi Brown

topic: Makeup, Style, Routine, Personalized

Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.

- Bobby Flay

topic: Giving, Cooking, Style, Charcoal

Forget about style; worry about results.

- Bobby Orr

topic: Hockey, Worry, Style

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

- Bong Joon-ho

source: "Bong Joon-ho Exclusive Interview - TOKYO!" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

topic: Style, Monsters, Directors, Horror Genre

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

- Bonnie Raitt

topic: Style, Made, Resources, Consolidation, Treasured

I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.

- Bonnie Wright

topic: Strong, People, Style, Strong Mind, Strong Minded

Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance.

- Boomer Esiason

source: "Showtime’s ‘Inside The NFL,’ Choice Quotes and Schedule" by April Neale, www.monstersandcritics.com. December 17, 2014.

topic: Differences, Style, Substance

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

- Booth Tarkington

source: Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.4, Booklassic

topic: Personality, Style, Doe

I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move.

- Boris Gelfand

topic: Moving, Games, Style

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

- Boris Johnson

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Skills, Style, Moments, Criticise, Cyborg

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

- Boris Spassky

source: "The Chessmaster 7000 - Computer Personality FAQ", www.ign.com. October 17, 2003.

topic: Fighting, Style, Stubborn

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

- Boy George

topic: Hands, Style

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

- Boz Scaggs

topic: Style, Together, Songwriting, Writing Songs, Songwriters

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

- Boz Scaggs

topic: Player, Guitar, Style, Guitar Player

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

- Brad Grey

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Style, Way, Strategy, My Own Style

I got cat class and I got cat style

- Brian Setzer

topic: Cat, Class, Style

Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.

- Bridget Hall

topic: Dream, Style, Comfort, Comfort Food

I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.

- Bridgit Mendler

topic: Creating, Style

My personal style is really different from 'Lemonade Mouth.'

- Bridgit Mendler

topic: Style, Different, Mouths, Personal Style, Lemonade

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

- Brock Yates

source: Brock Yates (2003). “Cannonball!”, p.13, MotorBooks International

topic: Law, Nuts, Style

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

- Brooke Burke

topic: Style, Fans, Steel, Chrome

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Failure, Grace, Style, Still Life With Woodpecker

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

- Bruce Boxleitner

topic: Style, Television, Changed

The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Men, Style, Boxers

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Art, Mean, Style

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

- Bruce Lee

topic: People, Style, Add

To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Art, Style, Genius, Martial Artist

Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have a style, if you just say: Well, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now, that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization . That way, it's a process of continuing growth.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Men, Growth, Style

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Art, Fighting, Style

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

- Bruce Lee

topic: Style, Conformity

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Men, Creating, Style, Individual Style

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Men, Style, Serious

Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Fighting, Style, Technique

I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Believe, Fighting, Style

Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

- Bruce Lee

topic: Interesting, Style, Aikido

I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.

- Bruno Mars

topic: Style, Incredibles, Classical Music

I'm hoping that "Nothin' On You", "Billionaire" and "Just The Way You Are" - songs that I produced... I hope that it's a warning for people. I hope it lets them know that I'm a little unorthodox when it comes to genres and styles.

- Bruno Mars

topic: Song, People, Style, Unorthodox

I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.

- Bryan Batt

topic: Nice, Daddy, Style, Loafers, Blazers

Collage is more than just an art style. Collage is all about bringing different elements together. Once you form a sensibility about connection, how different elements relate to each other, you deepen your understanding of yourself and others.

- Bryan Collier

topic: Art, Understanding, Style, Collages

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

- Bryn Terfel

topic: Choices, Singing, Style

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

- Buddy Rich

topic: Years, Style, Individual, Individual Style

A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.

- C. E. M. Joad

topic: Men, Style, Dresses

Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy.

- C. Z. Guest

topic: Style, Looks, Easy

My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

- Cameron Russell

source: "Model Cameron Russell Doesn't Pull Together Outfits, She Lets Them Collapse!". Interview with Melody Nazarian, www.popsugar.com. November 4, 2010.

topic: Military, Color, Style, Frills, Ladylike

Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Dont put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.

- Camila Alves

topic: Fashion, Feel Good, Style, Embrace Yourself, Fashion Trends

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

- Camilla Belle

topic: Strong, Sensual, Style, Personal Style, Intricacy

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Creating, Style, Example

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.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Style, Intellectual, Canada, No Nonsense, American English

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

- Camille Pissarro

source: Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). “Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien”

topic: Style, Done, Satisfaction

I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.

- Candace Cameron

topic: Teenager, Jeans, Style, Flip Flops, Tank Tops

When I think of a bombshell, I immediately think of Bridget Bardot. She's a woman who is so secure and just oozes sexy. Whether you are super feminine or more into that boyish style, you just own your look.

- Candice Swanepoel

topic: Sexy, Thinking, Style, Bombshells, Boyish