Style Quotes - Page 17

• It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.

  Louis Aragon

  Pain, Reading, Hard Work

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• No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Simple, Firsts

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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• What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Clever, Needs, News

  c.1910 Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.

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• The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His religion purely, loftily, impressively, before that multitude of "Bible-readers" whose only Bible is the Christian.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Christian, Followers, Demand

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 115, 1895.

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• Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the country because we always seemed so far behind style-setting New York, I now thank God for the cultural lag. Ours, after all, is the good neighbourhood. A society well worth preserving.

  Mordecai Richler

  Country, New York, Men

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• Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mother, Women, Media

  "Jamie Lee Curtis Comes Clean". Good Housekeeping Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 3, 2010.

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• Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Dream, Progress, Stories

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 77-78), 1964.

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• The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Sex, Attitude, Children

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• Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

  Anthony Crosland

  Air, Class, Differences

  "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

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• Your literary style reflects your personality.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Personality, Literary Style

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• The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.

  M. Ward

  Song, Opportunity, Light

  Interview with Bob Boilen, www.npr.org. November 17, 2006.

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• The "European Union" happens to be composed of people who hate our guts. It is the continent where Moveon.org-style lunatics are the friendly, pro-American types and the rest are crazy Muslims.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Crazy, People

  "No Wonder They're Afraid Of Brit Hume" by Ann Coulter, www.anncoulter.com. May 2, 2007.

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• I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

  Ruben Dario

  Rose, Bud, Want

  Rubén Darío (2010). “Selected Poems of Rubén Darío”, p.60, University of Texas Press

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• The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an overarching logic, but by association; the impression that prose gives is that it can go anywhere in a manner wholly unpredictable.

  Stanley Fish

  Mean, Giving, Trying

  "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

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• Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Book, Different, Buyers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The 60's has its own particular style and I think setting film in a period enables you to create your own reality that the audience can escape into and have fun, and in a way make it more real than it actually is.

  Lionel Wigram

  Fun, Real, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Writing those books ['Beauty' and 'Style']was really eye-opening, as you realize just how much goes into beauty and fashion, and also how much I've learned over the years. I think both books are essential, as they don't really teach you one particular look that will go out of style next season, but rather tools and tricks you can use over the years.

  Lauren Conrad

  Fashion, Book, Writing

  "My Interview with Lauren Conrad" by Sydney Sadick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?

  Clint Eastwood

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• Research, for me, it's trying to get a mood, a mood of a place and style of people and it's also trying to boost my confidence and get the adrenalin flowing. I go off on my trips to odd places and dark corners, feeling somewhat apprehensive and nervous.

  Gerald Seymour

  Dark, People, Feelings

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I do think younger women have to figure out how to combine their own sense of style with what is appropriate and authoritative. Some young women think there's no reason why they can't wear flip flops in the office in the summer because their accomplishments should exempt them from a stodgy dress code.

  Robin Givhan

  Summer, Thinking, Accomplishment

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The genre [of hard-partying girls] seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.

  Amy Argetsinger

  Girl, Party, Gone

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

  Gunther Schuller

  Symphony, Musician, Jazz

  "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

  Vanna Bonta

  Fashion, Function, Convergence

  "Vanna Bonta Presents Smart Fashion At NASA Ames Yuri's Night". Vanna Bonta's remarks at NASA Ames Research presentation (April 12, 2008), ireport.cnn.com. April 19, 2008.

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• I don't believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I'm excited by style, not so much by fashion.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Believe, Excited

  "Friendly homosexual fashion designer likes dogs but finds fashionable men terribly unsexy". Gert Jonkers, Butt Magazine, 2003.

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• Obama is very much an establishment sort of guy. The whole image of him as a transcendent figure was based on style rather than substance. If you actually looked at what he said, not how he said it, he said very establishment things. He's a moderate, cautious, ameliorative guy. He tends to gravitate toward Beltway conventional wisdom.

  Paul Krugman

  Guy, Substance, Figures

  "Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman". Interview with Jonathan Tasini, www.playboy.com. February 15, 2012.

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