“What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.” ShouldHomeHappensNightBehindsWiseDoorsStyleClosed DoorsBehind Closed Doors Author:Rachel Zoe
“The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?” IfsEndsHappensLiteratureIndividualStylePersonalityHabitLoversCloudsChecksBeing TrueStreamsProtestPerpetualQuotationsIndulgeSpontaneityIndulge InInsidiousGood Literature Book:Streaks of life Source: Streaks of life
“You can't just say, "I'm gonna have style." You have to work at it. It's intuitive; some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.” PeopleLongHappensStyleIntuitive Author:Iris Apfel
“Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writersPound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williamsspoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.” ThinkingKindHappensLastsNightStyleAuthorityAwakeProphetPoundsSpokesSolitaryPostmodernismAuthorshipJoycePostmodernEliotWastelandWoolfAwake At NightYeats Author:Jonathan Raban
“The "European Union" happens to be composed of people who hate our guts. It is the continent where Moveon.org-style lunatics are the friendly, pro-American types and the rest are crazy Muslims.” PeopleHappensHateCrazyStyleTypeUnionsGutsFriendlyContinentsEuropean Union Author:Ann Coulter
“Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?” IfsPersonsHappensCertainEasyNumbersQualityStyleCommitmentForgivingFaultsBoringCharacteristicsBoresDefectsGood QualityEndearing Book:The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel Source: The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel
“I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience you get, how much you're willing to expand your limits, how willing you are to develop your own style. If you're willing to put 10,000 hours, something amazing is going to happen.” IfsHappensProcessHoursSimpleStyleFieldsWillingMastersLimitsArgumentFunction Author:Robert Greene
“I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page” ThinkingWayLittlesBookHappensPleasureInterestingStylePagesSurpriseSentencesThings HappenSurprising Book:Conversations with John Updike Source: Conversations with John Updike