Style Quotes

My mother was never very famous when I was growing up, so it wasn't so difficult. It was only when I left home and went to university that she become this style icon.

~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld

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

~ Walt Whitman

A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'

~ Beth Ditto

We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

~ Robert Gottlieb

I pack a toothbrush, toothpaste, and deodorant. That's it. I don't have the time or patience for anything else. I'm a natural kind of guy. I don't style my hair - never learned how.

~ Paul Walker

This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.' I'm dead serious.

~ Robyn Lively

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

~ Andra Day

For me, music and life are all about style.

~ Miles Davis

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.

~ Donny Hathaway

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

~ Steve Prefontaine

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

~ Nick Rhodes

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.

~ Erykah Badu

You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

~ Shalom Harlow

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

~ Alfred Adler

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

~ Alvar Aalto

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.

~ Giambattista Valli

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

~ Vera Wang

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

~ Michael Graves

If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends.

~ Nina García

'Style Strategy' is about shopping smart, staying chic and making it all last. It's about showing women how to shop for value without compromising style.

~ Nina García

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

~ Isabella Rossellini

Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.

~ Odell Beckham

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.

~ Alexander Mcqueen

It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.

~ Tyler Florence

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

~ Marcus Brigstocke

It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that's perfectly fine, and that's amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I'd wear heels every day, and I'd strut around in a dress, but that's not me.

~ Alessia Cara

I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.

~ Mary Szybist

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

~ Alan Watts

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

~ Louis V. Gerstner

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

~ Thomas Frank

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

~ Monica Crowley

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

~ Robert Teeter

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

~ Robert Teeter

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

~ Bob Ainsworth

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

~ Cecelia Ahern

I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.

~ Samuel Barber

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

~ Stendhal

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

~ Iris Apfel