Quotes on Style

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes - it's about all kinds of change

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.