My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
~By Carl Stokes ~
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.
~By Steven Curtis Chapman ~
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport.
~By Tony Hawk ~
California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
~By Ice T ~
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
~By Jim Henson ~
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 ~
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
~By Michael Graves ~
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
~By John Scott ~
For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.
~By Hermann Maier ~
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.
~By Samuel Wesley ~
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 ~
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
~By Frank Zappa ~
What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
~By Joschka Fischer ~
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
~By Ike Turner ~
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
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.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.
~By Mary Timony ~
I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it.
~By John Hunter ~
The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
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 ~
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.
~By Philip Schaff ~
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.
~By Alexandra Paul ~
When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.
~By Rihanna ~
I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles.
~By Juice Newton ~
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
~By Sam Mendes ~
All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.
~By Ruggiero Ricci ~
I have no one style.
~By Oscar Peterson ~
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 ~
I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.
~By Lauren Graham ~
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
~By Marguerite Young ~
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 ~
No, because I've never really changed my style that much.
~By Carly Simon ~
My life style in a sense is kind of private.
~By Marc Newson ~
I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style.
~By Owen Hart ~
I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.
~By Gus Van Sant ~
I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.
~By John Sebastian ~
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
~By Tony Robbins ~
I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
~By Ofra Haza ~
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.
~By Paul Pierce ~
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody.
~By Rod Steiger ~
When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
~By Dan Fouts ~
Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
~By Tom Brokaw ~
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.
~By Michael Patrick Jann ~
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.
~By Steve Lacy ~
Nineties style isn't.
~By David Borenstein ~
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 ~
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
~By Charles Dickens ~
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 ~
Forget about style; worry about results.
~By Bobby Orr ~
The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.
~By Mick Taylor ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
~By Bryn Terfel ~
It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the "writing style" of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.
~By David Crane ~
I have invented the Thermometer style.
~By Josef Albers ~
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 ~
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
~By Stendhal ~
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 ~
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
~By Strom Thurmond ~
Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
~By Bill Blass ~
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.
~By Ray Brown ~
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.
~By Doc Severinsen ~
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 ~
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
It's not a company of exponents of my style.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
~By Debbie Harry ~
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
~By Mary Schmich ~
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
~By Emile Zola ~
You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.
~By Robin Yount ~
Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.
~By Nigel Mansell ~
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 ~
Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.
~By Scott Cook ~
I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.
~By Suzy Bogguss ~
Self-plagiarism is style.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.
~By Lesley Gore ~
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
~By Elliott Carter ~
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