"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."
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"Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it."
"50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let 'em hate, watch the money pile up."
"When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman."
"My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color."
"My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting."
"The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."
"To pull off any look, wear it with confidence."
"The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal."
"British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level."
"It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion."
"We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)"
"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them."
"I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources."
"Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself."
"Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains."
"I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting."
"The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness, the way you walk, your style of dress, I wish I didn't get so weak, oh baby just to hear you speak, makes me argue just to see how much your in love with me"
"Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst."
"Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles."