Style Quotes - Page 30

• Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

  Pete Townshend

  Father, Guitar, Machines

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• Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic plus. Then slipshod usage came in: an egalitarian minus. By now slovenly grammar is even more rife on the BBC channels than on ITV. In this regard a decline can be clearly charted... If the BBC, once the guardian of the English language, has now become its most implacable enemy, let us at least be grateful when the massacre is carried out with style.

  Clive James

  Grateful, Enemy, Television

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• A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Philosophy

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.35, Melville House

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• Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.

  Peter Bergen

  Offering, Groups, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love everything about what we [Suicide Silence] do, and our life style. It's an insane way to live when you spend most of your time inside a plane, tour bus, or in a back stage. All over this massive place we call earth.

  Mitch Lucker

  Suicide, Silence, Insane

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.

  Jack White

  Being Yourself, Thinking, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Dark, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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• People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch.

  Erislandy Lara

  Fighting, People, Fighter

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• Your style is formed by what you can't do.

  Larry Gelbart

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• There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy, those writers able to combine story-as-narration with story-as-style are even rarer. But there are a few...the late Theodore Sturgeon, the early Ray Bradbury...and Richard Christian Matheson. A brilliant chip off the old block.

  Stephen King

  Christian, Block, Views

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• Being hunted, paparazzi-style , doesn't appeal to me.

  Sia Furler

  Appeals, Paparazzi, Hunted

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• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  Caity Lotz

  Art, Moving, School

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

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• I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

  Cody Horn

  Generations, Flannels, Shirts

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• My personal style is ever changing.

  India de Beaufort

  Personal Style

  "New Jane By Design Deets!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 22, 2012.

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• My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

  India de Beaufort

  Vintage, Way, Clean

  "New Jane By Design Deets!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 22, 2012.

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• The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.

  Stevie Wonder

  Kings, Pain, Careers

  FaceBook post by Stevie Wonder from May 16, 2015

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• I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind.

  Terry Gou

  Communication, Execution, Korean

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• I admire fashion and I respect it greatly, but I don't necessarily follow trends. I never really have. I just wear what I like to wear. I really like colors, and there are some things I wear and don't care what anybody says about it being in style or not. I wear it anyway.

  Condola Rashad

  Fashion, Color, Care

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• Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing.

  Michael Marmot

  Country, Book, Income

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• Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

  Tyler Cowen

  Real, Ideas, Diversity

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• And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Thinking, Succeed

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• The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

  Jonathan Swift

  Bible, Running, Writing

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works”, p.55

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• One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

  Edith Wharton

  Care, Littles, Approval

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 1 1891-1910”, p.174, Library of America

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• Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

  Honore de Balzac

  Writing, Thieves, Noses

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• Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

  William Butler Yeats

  Personality, Hot, Mask

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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