S Quotes
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“Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.”
“Style is how you see the world and how the world sees you. It isn't today and it isn't tomorrow; it isn't a dress or a car or a shoe or a comment-it's the cut of your sail as you cross this crazy, uncharted sea. Far ahead, legions of boats have already made the crossing-some grander, some more sleek-and still newer boats are always coming up behind you. Style is the manner in which you navigate your one remarkable voyage.”
“Style is important, but content comes first.”
“Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'”
“Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.”
“Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.”
“Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.”
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
“Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.”
“Style is like a muscle: you have to exercise it regularly or you'll lose it.”
“Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se, but in terms of stories. It is the story itself that creates an inherent structure.”
“Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.”
“Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.”
“Style is not a cure-all, but it is important and must be married with substance and authenticity.”
Source: Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence
“Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it.”
“Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual”
“Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.”
“Style is not decoration. It is structure.”
Source: WHO ARE YOU REALLY?: Discover Your Archetype and Start Living Your True Life
“STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE”
“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
“Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.”
“Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.”
“Style is, perhaps, the sovereign quality in these stories.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“Style is primarily a matter of instinct.”
“Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.”
“Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.”
Source: the zodiac arch
“Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.”
“Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.”
“Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.”
Source: David Hockney: grafiek
“Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.”
Source: David Hockney: a retrospective
“Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual.”
“Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.”
“Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art
Bullfighting can be an art
Boxing can be an art
Loving can be an art
Opening a can of sardines can be an art
Not many have style
Not many can keep style
I have seen dogs with more style than men,
although not many dogs have style.
Cats have it with abundance.
When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,
that was style.
Or sometimes people give you style
Joan of Arc had style
John the Baptist
Jesus
Socrates
Caesar
García Lorca.
I have met men in jail with style.
I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.
Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,
or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.”
“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing”
“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.”
“Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.”
“Style is the difference between a circle and the way you draw it.”
“Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Style is the essence of man”
“Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap.”
Source: Seven Essays
“Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.”
Source: A history of the United States
“Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.”
“Style is the image of character.”
Source: Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings
“Style is the inner feeling which turns random movement into music.”
“Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.”
“Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.”