Quotes 81 till 100 of 169.
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Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
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Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.
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My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
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My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.
Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution -
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
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Myself, I'm just a simple country boy who spent time on the streets and developed a style of writing and rapping and a cool sound that people seem to enjoy.
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Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
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New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
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Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.
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Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
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Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!
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Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
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Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for women and the lazy. His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Once more I would adopt the graver style - a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
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Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.
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Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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