Style Quotes
- Page 9The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Edward Gibbon
So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.
Pat Oliphant
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
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
Fred Astaire
There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.
Ina Garten
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
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
Robert Teeter
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.
Leslie Nielsen
It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
Evan Hunter
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.
Suzanne Vega
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
Adam Jones
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
Otis Blackwell
The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.
Michel Hazanavicius
I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
Travis Barker
I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
LaToya London
I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.
George Plimpton
You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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.
Edward Burns
As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.
John Foster
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
Irwin Shaw
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.
Mariah Carey
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.
Nina Garcia