Style Quotes - Page 4

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

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

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

No, Wayne (Rooney) doesn’t need it (tips about style). He has his own style. But with hair he looks much better. He looks very good now. Before, he was a little bit ugly, but now, with hair, he’s beautiful.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

I learned the hula, so now I know how to shake my booty Hawaiian style.

It is not wrong to want to live better; what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards 'having' rather than 'being,' and which wants to have more, not in order to be more but in order to spend life in enjoyment as an end in itself.

I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world.

A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.

Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.

Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.

What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.