Style Quotations | Page 3

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

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.

Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she would say, 'Yeah, yeah, just tell me: is it good for you or bad for you?' Consequently, I think, I was always afraid to indulge in the time that you need to tell a joke, very nervous about anything that constituted an Act II.

If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them, that they are a woman's affair, then you can hardly complain that he doesn't have any style sense. You all make this bed.

For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

I guess my style’s a little edgy but comfortable. I like being comfortable, for sure, and kind of casual.

I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

I'd define my everyday style as put together, but also comfortable. A great pair of jeans and a cute top can be so versatile.

It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

The biggest criticism would be buying clothes that are too big or trying too hard. I tend to like things a little leaner and more formfitting. I believe personal style often outweighs fashion. Just be yourself.

I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athletes stay with your program for a long, long period of time. Some athletes, they have a different approach as far as coaching style or your philosophies. I totally respect their own opinions - they have the right to choose their own coach.

I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

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.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.'

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on Boardwalk Empire.

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

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

I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day. It used to be sushi, but these days I cannot stop eating mac and cheese. I haven't had it from a box in a long time, but I'll make it homemade style with four types of cheeses, lots of milk, maybe a little ketchup. I don't know, I'm crazy like that.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

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.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I love punk music. I'm also a fan of mixing vintage with some high fashion, which links back to my musical taste because I tend to mix old music with newer songs.

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

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.

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

All of my style came from listening to records.

I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!

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.

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue.

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

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

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.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

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.

I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.

A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Daytona showed I had style and I didn't need to be flashy.

Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.

My style is simple, kinda girly, but with a bit of an edge.

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

I love Demi Lovato's style. It's really different, but it's super chic and has a cool edge to it. I'm always trying to channel her style when going shopping for new clothes or getting dressed in the morning.

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

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

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.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home

If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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.

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

My biggest style inspirations come from the '90s. I'm really inspired by TLC, Janet Jackson, and designers like Jeremy Scott. I'm hugely inspired by Club Kids from New York back in the '90s. I'm inspired by the drag queen scene. Combat boots and the torn off jeans and a baggy shirt - I love that look.

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

That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.

Material Girl is about having your own personal style, and my personal style reflects the brand's aesthetic.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.