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Style Quotes


"If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way."


"To understand a literary style, consider what it omits."


"Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing."


"Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature."


"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed."


"Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles."


"I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives."


"I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style."


"Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field."


"I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood."


"I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style."


"I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style."



"Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand."


"It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different."


"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style."


"Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand."


"My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today."


"I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style."


"I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself."


"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."


"I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient."


"One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines."


"Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in."


"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."


"I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style."


"He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."


"Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it."
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