- “True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.” ― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
- “Each individual is a unique and brilliant work of art. So let that beauty from within illuminate the world.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
- “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
- “I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes — it’s about all kinds of change” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “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
- “Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Wearing clothes we feel good in can help us maintain a positive outlook by increasing our self-acceptance and self-confidence.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
- “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
- “The ego is such a clever thing it even possesses a set of humble clothes.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About Hair and MakeupDon’t Say… Your hair and makeup say you’re trying too hard to look young.Do Say… Keys to beauty are finding the styles that work best for you now. Could we take a look at an idea book? When you look at your face we have internal and external lines. Let me show you how we can work on this to your advantage.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
- “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “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
- “The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.” ― Vladimir Nabokov
- “He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. “Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from,” he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. “Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.” ― Joe Hill, Horns
- “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
- “The most beautiful things you can wear are your self-confidence and your self-love.” ― Leticia Rae
- “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
- “They paint what they see, whereas we paint what we look at.” ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
- “Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary
- “Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.” ― Amit Kalantri
- “Being you, never goes out of style!” ― Somya Kedia
- “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
- “We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde, I want to do the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hitchens and Kipling as well as the pastel dawns and twilights of Chesterton. All that is by way of example. As a matter of fact I am a professed literary thief, hot after the best methods of every writer in my generation.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Short Autobiography
- “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
- “There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, ‘Do trousers matter?'””The mood will pass, sir.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
- “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “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
- “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
- “Like the usurpers in the Italian Renaissance, they seek to gloss over the illegitimacy of their rô1e by offering tangible advantages and making a fine show; that explains their economic liberalism and their patronage of the arts. They employ art not merely as a means to fame and a propaganda instrument but also as an opiate to soothe the opposition. The fact that their art policy is often accompanied by a true love and understanding of art does not affect its social basis. The courts of the Tyrants are the most important cultural centres of the age and its greatest repositories of artistic production […] Yet in spite of this activity at the courts, the art of the age of the Tyrants is not entirely a product of the court; the rationalistic and individualistic spirit of the age hindered the development of that solemn pageantry and those conventional forms which are characteristic of a court style. The only features in this art that we can ascribe to the court are its joy in the senses, its refined intellectuality, and its somewhat artificial elegance of expression—all features to be found in the older Ionian tradition but developed to a still higher degree at the courts of the Tyrants.” ― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages