Quotes by Style Different scenes call for different acting styles. The kinds of scenes I like most are the ones where you just bury yourself in there. So I wouldn't say that's the only way to be funny, but that's my favorite way to play stuff, to try to put myself in a situation where that kind of acting is necessary. Will Forte styleplaytrying In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality. Will Self stylefictionfall To sing with other people and for other people, that's when you can really learn something about your voice. You can only learn so much if you create your own boundaries all the time. But then, other people can really teach you something. You know, if you're trying to sing with them, or if someone brings a style. Will Oldham stylevoicepeople Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. Willem de Kooning hypestylegreek The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style. Willem Dafoe styleimportantdirectors Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade. William Battie stylefashionrunning Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his style; a man of vigorous powers makes his style bend to his conceptions. William Benton Clulow stylelanguagemen Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn. William Bernbach cornstylebusiness Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers. William Butler Yeats stylepersonalityhot The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style. William Butler Yeats alchemiststyleartist Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed. William Friedkin halloweenstyleimportant The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written. William Faulkner styleshouldideas What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous. William Gibson torontostyletoo-much When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope. William H. Gass ottersslidesstyle To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes. William Hazlitt stylechoiceswriting Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it. William Hazlitt simplicitystylewriting If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more. William James toilstylefirsts The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected. William Makepeace Thackeray thoughtfulstylesmoking Don't think too much of style. William Morris styledesignthinking One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own. William Makepeace Thackeray styletearseye«129130131132133134135136137138139»
