My Style Quotes

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
- Aaliyah

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.
- Mitch Albom

(paraphrased from Tim Powers) My style might seem awkward, but I'm only trying to write down the things in the scene that I think the reader should know.
- Ernest Hemingway

I sometimes think my style is suggestive rather than direct. The reader must often use his imagination or lose the most subtle part of my thought.
- Ernest Hemingway

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.
- Mariah Carey

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
- Louis Aragon

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
- Dario Argento

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.
- Peter Arnett

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.
- Jane Austen

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.
- Roy Ayers

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

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
- Otis Blackwell

My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.
- Michelle Branch

Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.
- Jo Brand

So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.
- Jo Brand

All of my style came from listening to records.
- Lindsey Buckingham

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.
- Chris Burke

So, what, Trevor was the quid and Shayna was the pro quo? I don't think so, Syd. Playing games is not my style.
- Steph Campbell

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.
- Earl Campbell

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
- Kate Clinton

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
- Joe Cocker

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
- Jackie Collins

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
- Elvis Presley

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.
- Desmond Dekker

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
- Anita Desai

Ordinarily, I am the person who falls in love quickly and somewhat inappropriately and then goes on to destroy what is a good thing. That's always been my style. So, you know: I get it. And I feel right now the way I imagine all those guys felt with me. And I have to say, for the first time in my life, I feel something approaching compassion for them.
- Sarah Dunn

I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.
- James Durbin

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.
- Jenny Eclair

Yes, but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us. There should be a little filigree about a woman--something of the coquette. A man likes a sort of challenge. The more of a dead set she makes at you the better.
- George Eliot

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.
- Epictetus

These reasonings have no logical connection: "I am richer than you; therefore I am your superior." "I am more eloquent than you; therefore I am your superior." The true logical connection is rather this: "I am richer than you; therefore my possessions must exceed yours." "I am more eloquent than you; therefore my style must surpass yours." But you, after all, consist in neither property nor in style.
- Epictetus

I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.
- Marlen Esparza

I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.
- Anna Faris

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.
- Grandmaster Flash

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
- John Fogerty

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
- Vanessa Hudgens

My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted.
- Nina Garcia

Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.
- Nina Garcia

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
- Gordon Getty

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.
- Philip Green

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.
- Kathy Griffin

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.
- Lukas Haas

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.
- Coleman Hawkins

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.
- Tom Hicks

My style is all to myself.
- John Lee Hooker

I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it.
- John Hunter

Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.
- Joshua Jackson

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.
- Dorothy Kilgallen

Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.
- Barbara Kingsolver

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.
- Martin Kippenberger

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

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.
- Vladimir Kramnik

My style is very strong poses and expressions.
- John Kricfalusi

It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.
- Avril Lavigne

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
- Nastia Liukin

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.
- Julie London

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.
- Hermann Maier

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

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
- Marcel Marceau

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.
- Jesse Mccartney

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.
- Dylan Mcdermott

I've gotten to wear such beautiful clothes and had such a variety and it's just been so nice because I feel like I've grown so much with my style and everything because I've been able to have fun with it. It's really fun for me.
- Leighton Meester

It's not a company of exponents of my style.
- Graeme Murphy

I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.
- Jana Novotna

It's not my style to judge anybody.
- Vanessa Paradis

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.
- Sean Paul

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.
- Mike Pence

I don't read. I don't like to read 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. It's not my style.
- Nicole Polizzi

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
- Ivan Reitman

What I've noticed in this game is how EA has even duplicated my moves and my style of play perfectly. It is really incredible and a lot of fun to play.
- Claudio Reyna

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.
- Rihanna

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
- Henri Rousseau

My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style... I cook from the soul.
- Aaron Sanchez

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
- Boz Scaggs

My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.
- Jon Secada

My style is constantly changing.
- Kiernan Shipka

No, because I've never really changed my style that much.
- Carly Simon

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
- Boris Spassky

I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.
- Latrell Sprewell

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
- Cat Stevens

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
- Carl Stokes

I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
- Obie Trice

My style go with me. It depend how I feel, what is my state of mind.
- Paz Vega

I have peanut M&M's up there."
"Not my style"
"Raisinets."
"Feh."
"Sam Adams."
Thor narrowed his eyes. "Cold?"
"Downright icy."
Thor crossed his arms over his chest and told him self he was not pouting like a five-year-old. "I want Milk Duds.
- J R Ward

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
- Venus Williams

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
- Anzia Yezierska