Style Quotes - Page 28

• I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel!

  Donald Bradman

  Player, Two, Wife

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• I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

  Narendra Modi

  Believe, India, Ability

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• You have to really think about what kind of guy the character is and decide on a style that works, that complements my physicality and that's going to be believable, but also be compelling for the audience and for the camera.

  Holt McCallany

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• Style. People talk about it being stylish and beautiful, that's at the service of the story. Style for me means nothing without substance and there are moments and things about the film that are stylish but hopefully at the service of the story.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Mean, People

  "Director Tom Ford Interview A SINGLE MAN". collider.com. December 7, 2009.

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• The perfect equation is form equals content. The style of the film reflects the story, and that's what you're always aiming for. You're not always necessarily successful at it, but that's the ambition that you're trying to do.

  Danny Boyle

  Ambition, Successful, Perfect

  "Danny Boyle Interview, Trance". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Stories, Way

  The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.

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• I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.

  Aaron Gillespie

  Creativity, Thinking, People

  "A conversation with lead singer of The Almost and former Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's not fighting monsters. This isn't the kind of movie that's got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Book, Mean, Fighting

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Substance and content over style and hype any day.

  Derwin L. Gray

  Leadership, Christian, Hype

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• Be yourself, no matter what they say.

  Sting

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Matter

  Song: Englishman in New York

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• It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

  Robert A. Burton

  Betrayal, Betray

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• If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

  Voltaire

  Editors, Answers, Critics

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.72, Voltaire

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• I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

  Chris Burke

  Giving Up, Wall, Eye

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• The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

  Paul Goodman

  Retreat, Language, Problem

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Comedian, Complaining

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.

  Salman Khan

  Believe, Unique, Way

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• We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.

  David Berman

  Technology, Skills, Addiction

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• Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

  Ernst Haas

  Thinking, Keys, Personality

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• A Christian is the highest style of man.

  Edward Young

  Christian, Men, Highest

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life”, p.112

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• Beware you are not a fiery, persecuting enthusiast. Do not imagine that God has called you (just contrary to the spirit of Him you style your Master) to destroy men’s lives, and not to save them. Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love.

  John Wesley

  Dream, Mean, Men

  John Wesley (1829). “Sermons on Several Occasions”, p.417

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• People think that we're crazy because we do six nights a week. I would physically not be able to take it, especially when you see how much he put into every show... He created this larger than life style and he pulled it off.

  Rob Thomas

  Crazy, Night, Thinking

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• The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

  Hugh Blair

  Hygiene, Literature, Purity

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

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• There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

  Ed Parker

  Flesh, Matter, Knuckles

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• My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

  John Oates

  Guitar, Synthesis, Acoustics

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• We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?

  Lord Byron

  Mistake, Inspiration, Believe

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2723, Delphi Classics

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