Quotes by Style It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant. William Pfaff stylegovernmentpeople Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace. William Safire stylecolorgrace In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.' William Safire stylejudgingorder 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. William S. Burroughs prisonerstylecharacter Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius. William Saroyan stylegeniuskind Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty. William Shenstone stylecolorchoices Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones. William Shenstone stylemusicalwriting To acquire style, begin by affecting none. William Strunk, Jr. acquirestyle The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity. William Strunk, Jr. orderlinesssimplicitystyle It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes. William Webb superherostylebook Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style. William Zinsser stylewritingpeople Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. William Zinsser stylenarrativemoving Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on your way to having abilities and skills as to be able to spit-shine a pair of shoes like they're patent leather. You're a bad dude. To spit-shine a pair of shoes. So, even to that small detail, that aided me and assisted me in becoming the artist that I am. My uncles' sense of style, their type of ties they used. The way they wore their suits, big and huge and baggy. The way they did their haircuts with the side burns. All of that. Willie Herron styleshiningartist Where my earlier works, what sets them apart is that I didn't need approval and I didn't need permission from anyone because I wasn't being paid. So, to me, I was allowed the freedom, the total freedom to just communicate how I wanted to communicate and my whole level of perspective was to communicate to the barrios, communicate to the gangs and communicate to the people that frequent the thoroughfares that were populated by these gangs and by this life style. Willie Herron styleperspectivepeople My style kinda comes from the music I listen to. Willow Smith style What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions. Wim Wenders stylefilmfacts To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage. Witold Gombrowicz ineptitudestyleart A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed. Witold Gombrowicz embraceknow-howstyle He [Tyson Fury] will be difficult opponent to adjust to, because of his style of fighting and physical conditions. Fans will certainly not be bored. Wladimir Klitschko styleboredfighting As the style of Faulkner grew out of his rage--out of the impotence of his rage--the style of Hemingway grew out of the depth andnuance of his disenchantment. Wright Morris styleragedepth«130131132133134135136137138139140»
