- “One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- “It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that lead a nation or a literature to fresh achievements, are the unknown many whose patient efforts keep the world from running backward; who guard and maintain the ancient values, even if they do not conquer new; whose inconspicuous triumph it is to pass on what they inherited from their fathers, unimpaired and undiminished, to their sons. Enough, for almost all of us, if we can hand on the torch, and not let it down; content to win the affection, if it may be, of a few who know us and to be forgotten when they in their turn have vanished. The destiny of mankind is not governed wholly by its ‘stars’.” ― F. L. Lucas, Style
- “Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About Proper FitDon’t Say… Did you know when you wear clothes that are too tight you look ten pounds heavier?Do Say… You say it’s been a while since you went shopping, let’s try a few items and see what works the best. We want it to fit and make you feel fabulous. Would you like to try this? Okay?” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
- “The most beautiful things you can wear are your self-confidence and your self-love.” ― Leticia Rae
- “Being you, never goes out of style!” ― Somya Kedia
- “Why?’ He asked.’Why what?’ What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I’d like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don’t tell.” ― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
- “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Crossing the limit is not my styleMy footsteps meander less than a mileI travel the world perhaps in a minuteYet a dream, to me, is never infinite!” ― Munia Khan
- “Like many compositions of its kind – all muscles, square jaws and sunshine – it is stronger on the socialism than the reality” ― Catherine Merridale, Lenin on the Train
- “To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don’t need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. Words have a weight to them. How you choose to present them and to whom is a matter of style and choice.” ― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
- “I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes — it’s about all kinds of change” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Give yourself the clear advantage of a positive perspective with styles that compliment your best features and colors all in perfect proportion to your body.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
- “Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul.” ― Oscar Wilde, Reviews
- “Above all things — read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.” ― Ngaio Marsh, Death on the Air and Other Stories
- “Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
- “Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without itTo do a dangerous thing with style is what I call artBullfighting can be an artBoxing can be an artLoving can be an artOpening a can of sardines can be an artNot many have styleNot many can keep styleI have seen dogs with more style than men,although not many dogs have style.Cats have it with abundance.When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,that was style.Or sometimes people give you styleJoan of Arc had styleJohn the BaptistJesusSocratesCaesarGarcía Lorca.I have met men in jail with style.I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.” ― Charles Bukowski
- “Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.” ― Jean Kerr
- “Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.” ― Amit Kalantri
- “The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “As my energy changed and felt so much more free, open and exciting, new stuff started showing up. It became addictive — circulating energy. I stopped wearing my workout clothes every damn day. Working from home has its perks, but I was just dressing by default. There I was with a wardrobe full of clothes, yet I was wearing the same yoga pants, Jeaniius Tee, and hair scrunchie top knot every damn day. Time to wear the clothes I’d never worn, just because! I felt refreshed. Paying more attention to my clothes led to something else that shifted my energy level. I have always given away my clothes in bundles, because I just love the feeling of minimalism (and giving) but I was reaching a whole new level. I realized that every single thing in my home had its own energy-even my clothes. So if there was something sitting around that was not getting used or giving me any joy or excitement, it was time for it to go. I felt I had space for so many surprises to show up, and of course, they did.” ― Peta Kelly, Earth is Hiring: The New way to live, lead, earn and give for millennials and anyone who gives a sh*t
- “The road to success is rough and tough, you boil and toil but you finally smile in style.” ― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty ‘n’ Worthy African Proverbs – Volume 1
- “The ego is such a clever thing it even possesses a set of humble clothes.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary
- “She’s beautiful,’ he murmured.’She’s a metre across the hips, easily,’ said Julia.’That is her style of beauty,’ said Winston.” ― George Orwell, 1984
- “There are many reasons for the outward appearance of my works of art but the main one is the well-thought-out reason for creating them in the first place, as a consequence, there’s no middle ground when it comes to my style. Either you love it or loathe it, whatever the outcome, both flatter me.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “I think one should pay so much attention to technique, don’t you? Like learning to draw before you paint.” ― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
- “Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About SizeDon’t Say… You don’t fit into this store’s clothes.Do Say… This store doesn’t cater to your needs.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, Cindy Ann Peterson’s AICI CIC Accelerator (℠): Peterson’s Power Prep Primer
- “Young people often ask me, is it wrong to wear bold clothes? I tell them, wear whatever you are comfortable in, it’s the character that lives, not clothes.” ― Abhijit Naskar