Quotes 401 till 420 of 673.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
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Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style, I amaze the unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.
Essay on Criticism 327 -
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
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