Style Quotes - Page 33

• Climb the ladder to success escalator style

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Ladders, Climbs, Escalators

  Song: Just a Memory, Album: Duets: The Final Chapter

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• Just look at me! Beauty. Style. A little vision of perfection. I love myself and that's enough.

  Maryse Ouellet

  Perfection, Vision, Looks

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• The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Suits, Forget

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• The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Oratory, Speech

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Political, Important, Today

  ""Evil Can also Be Beautiful"". Interview with Matthias Matussek, Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There may benothing lofty in the sentiment, or fine in the expression, but it is careless country talk. Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. Some have this merit only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Art, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month's labor in the farmer's almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Men, Records

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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• Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

  Mason Cooley

  Sacrifice, Comfort, Virtue

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• We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Hard Work, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.385, Modern Library

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• Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Hands, Attention

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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• Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no favor.They do not speak a good word for her. Most cry better than they speak, and you can get more nature out of them by pinching than by addressing them. The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. Better that the primrose by the river's brim be a yellow primrose, and nothing more, than that it be something less.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.76, Xist Publishing

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• No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Class, Effort, Growth

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• I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, "Aren't you tired of always playing Tracy?" Tracy replied, "What am I supposed to do, play Bogart?" You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

  LeBron James

  Tired, Play, Suits You

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• Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

  Richard Whately

  Intellectual, Energy, Metaphor

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• The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Long, Leaving

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.213

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• One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Should Have, Wish, Wit

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• There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Real, Italian

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• Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Expression, Sight

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• It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Drawing, Judging

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• Needed are...[souls] filled with compassion, that we might communicate not only eye to eye, or voice to ear, but in the majestic style of the Savior, even heart to heart.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Eye, Compassion

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• We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Memories, Childhood

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• Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.

  Stephen Brookfield

  Learning, People, Needs

  Stephen Brookfield (1995). “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher”, Jossey-Bass

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• (Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.

  Nellie Fox

  Baseball, Powerful, Practice

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• What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be incompatible with the emotion of the actor at that moment. The movement, the style, the atmosphere, everything is dictated by the actor.

  Xavier Dolan

  Moving, Decision, Atmosphere

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Beautiful, Art, People

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