Style Quotes

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes.

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

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.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

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

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

You know, I've certainly gone through periods, once I got into this business, where I tried to adopt maybe a more sophisticated style, 'cause they give you all these free clothes.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.

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

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.

If something is good, it doesn't go out of style every six months. The fashion wheel of today doesn't have to go as quickly as it was pushed in the 80's.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.