When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
~By Boris Spassky ~
No, because I've never really changed my style that much.
~By Carly Simon ~
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
~By Laura Dern ~
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.
~By Liz Phair ~
I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.
~By Billy Sheehan ~
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
~By Erykah Badu ~
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.
~By Liz Phair ~
There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.
~By Jim Cramer ~
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
~By Stephen Bayley ~
I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
~By Bryn Terfel ~
Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
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.
~By Jaron Lanier ~
Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.
~By Gene Ween ~
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.
~By William Bernbach ~
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.
~By Brett Hull ~
That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
~By Kip Winger ~
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
~By Karl Kraus ~
I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.
~By Coleman Hawkins ~
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
~By Frank Auerbach ~
I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you.
~By Herb Ritts ~
I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.
~By Jana Novotna ~
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.
~By Debbie Allen ~
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
~By Iris Chang ~
Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.
~By Franz Marc ~
Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
~By Lamont Dozier ~
When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.
~By Missy Elliot ~
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?
~By Matthew Shipp ~
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
~By Marilyn Horne ~
Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.
~By Lexa Doig ~
Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.
~By Brandon Thomas ~
Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
~By Gore Vidal ~
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style.
~By Christian Siriano ~
It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
~By Evan Hunter ~
I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.
~By Vinnie Vincent ~
Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
~By Jim Henson ~
I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.
~By Dorothy Kilgallen ~
I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.
~By Philip Green ~
Most style is not honest enough.
~By F. L. Lucas ~
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.
~By Leni Riefenstahl ~
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
~By Ken Burns ~
It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.
~By Jason Mraz ~
Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.
~By Samuel Wesley ~
Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
~By Jonny Lang ~
Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.
~By Mike Davidson ~
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
~By John C. Ransom ~
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
~By Robert Frost ~
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
~By Andre Maurois ~
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
~By Martin Amis ~
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
~By Ralph Lauren ~
It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
~By Zakk Wylde ~
A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.
~By Thomas Leonard ~
Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.
~By Julia Barr ~
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
~By Karl Kraus ~
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.
~By Suzy Bogguss ~
So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.
~By Jo Brand ~
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.
~By Jack Lynch ~
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
~By Paul Klee ~
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
~By Robert Teeter ~
I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.
~By Jo Brand ~
I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
~By Rachel Zoe ~
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
~By David Suzuki ~
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.
~By Philip Schaff ~
Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.
~By Elvis Stojko ~
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
~By Oscar Peterson ~
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
~By William Burroughs ~
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
~By Benjamin Bratt ~
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.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.
~By Dennis Flanagan ~
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
~By Fred Astaire ~
Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
~By Brock Yates ~
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
~By Jelly Roll Morton ~
But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.
~By Doug E. Fresh ~
I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.
~By Dylan McDermott ~
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
~By Dan Rather ~
It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
~By Gordon Getty ~
To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
~By Fred Allen ~
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!
~By Charlie Hunter ~
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
~By Margaret Oliphant ~
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
~By Robert Plant ~
Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
~By Brad Holland ~
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