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"I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did."
"I'm for style - fashions change too often."
"Fashion passes, but style remains."
"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing"
"Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style."
"Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that."
"Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection."
"Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures."
"Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style."
"Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature."
"A good style fits like a good costume."
"It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state."
"A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate."
"Some styles don't look good on bigger women."
"In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute."
"He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."
"Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts."
"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
"For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance."
"I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable."
