Style Quotes - Page 44

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

Style helps distinguish you . . . It's a great potential opportunity that people tend to leave by the wayside

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different style. It's not conservative, its post-liberal. Rather than make hypocritical gestures towards the just, the good and the true, it's about making hyperbolic gestures about their absence.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

Styles in wit change so.

In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

A style similar to Song Hye Gyo's is my ideal type.

My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.

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.

Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.

The message of some churches today seems to be, "Only sing if it appeals to your sense of style, or your demographic." Yet when we look at heaven, we see that every tribe and every nation will sing together.

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

My style is very strong poses and expressions.