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Styling Quotes (page 11)

Here I am in the garden laughingan old woman with heavy breastsand a nicely mapped facehow did this happenwell that's who I wanted to beat last a womanin the old style sittingstout thighs apart undera big skirt grandchild slidingon off my lap a pleasantsummer perspirationthat's my old man across the yardhe's talking to the meter readerhe's telling him the world's sad storyhow electricity is oil or uraniumand so forth I tell my grandsonrun over to your grandpa ask himto sit beside me for a... Grace Paley
Oscar Wilde quote: "Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion..."
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. Oscar Wilde
Cambridge exceeded our most macabre expectations ... the arm-chairs, the crumpets, the beautifully-bound eighteenth century volumes, the fires roaring in stoked grates. Each of us had the loan of an absent undergraduate's rooms - bedroom, sitting-room and pantry; all fitted up in a style which, after the spartan simplicity of a public school study, seemed positively sinful. Christopher Isherwood
Jane Austen quote: "To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at..."
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all. Jane Austen
(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
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue Tina Fey
Yves Saint Laurent quote: "Fashion fades, style is eternal."
Fashion fades, style is eternal. Yves Saint Laurent
The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. Oscar Wilde
Raymond Chandler quote: "As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its..."
As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style. Raymond Chandler
In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History. Thomas Pynchon
Margaret Oliphant quote: "Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own,..."
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better. Margaret Oliphant
You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter...having lost the song, we pursue the singer. We learn from the singer the technique of song, but there is no song; and I say the song is essential, the joy of singing is essential. When the joy is there, the technique can be built up from nothing; you will invent your... Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nicole Richie quote: "True friends are like diamonds? bright, beautiful, valuable,..."
True friends are like diamonds? bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. Nicole Richie
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other. Jane Austen
... It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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