Style Quotes - Page 14

• Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving, Creative, Sublime

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• For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

  Ben Jonson

  Writing, Exercise, Men

  Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Effort, Greek, Doubt

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

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• Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e  tonne   et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Car, Natural

  'Pensèes' (1670) no. 29

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• Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Kind, Consciousness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international" style that is as opposed to interpretation as it is repellent to the foot.

  George Pendle

  Believe, Feet, Woods

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

  Juan Felipe Herrera

  Spices, Tradition, Poet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

  David Wright

  Sports, Baseball, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

  David Gelernter

  Book, Lectures, Physics

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

  Chris Paul

  Cities, Judging, Chance

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

  Ron Paul

  Simple, Government, Messages

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.

  Guy Ritchie

  Men, Ideas, Agents

  Source: collider.com

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• The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it's more neutrally played. The main character is very minamalistic. That's what works in this digital age.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Character, Age, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• [My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.

  Jenna Bush

  Mom, Book, School

  "Jenna Bush: 'I'm living my dream job'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

  ASAP Ferg

  Fashion, Art, Grace

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We all have personalities, but in football a lot of times you don't talk about that because you want to focus more on the grit and grind of the season, instead of people's personal styles or worldly habits.

  Dhani Jones

  Football, People, Focus

  "Dhani Jones: "I'm Gonna Be The First Black James Bond"". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 10, 2009.

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• The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done.

  Scott Raab

  Done, Intense

  "Chris Rock: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 18, 2011.

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• I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.

  Bruno Mars

  Incredibles, Classical Music, Should

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I'm hoping that "Nothin' On You", "Billionaire" and "Just The Way You Are" - songs that I produced... I hope that it's a warning for people. I hope it lets them know that I'm a little unorthodox when it comes to genres and styles.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, People, Unorthodox

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Mean, Hands, Color

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• I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.

  Bill Reid

  Art, Unique, Thinking

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• If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

  William Julius Wilson

  Attitude, Opportunity, People

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• Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Clever, Labels, Buying

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• Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Dream, Men, Culture

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• My style kinda comes from the music I listen to.

  Willow Smith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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