Style Quotes - Page 64

Do It With Style It's not enough that we want to change the world. It's not enough that our product is incredibly complex and our vision is vast and shifting. We're not just going to win, we're going to do it with style. That means a lot of different things, and a lot of what it means can't be captured in a handbook.

My style hero was Batman. Now it's Tony Stark.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style.

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted.

My ultimate style icon is Grace Jones.

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried to destroy.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

The promise to take back control of our borders. I will end free movement, introduce an Australian-style points-based system for immigration, and bring numbers down. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.

Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre of commodity or a section in a bookstore, by breaking it. Michael Moorcock revived fantasy by prying it loose from morality; writers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stepan Chapman, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Nathan Ballingrud are doing the same by prying fantasy away from pedestrian writing, with more vibrant and daring styles, more reflective thinking, and a more widely broadcast spectrum of themes.

[Dean Martin ] had this really wonderful rich, authentic, distinct vocal style. His humour in movies [and] the self-deprecation and the coolness he had could overshadow what a marvellous vocalist in the Great American Songbook he is.