759 Quotes About Style


  • Author Geezer Butler
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    During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.

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  • Author Henry Ward Beecher
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    We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.

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  • Author Hosea Ballou
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    A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

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  • Author Hugh Blair
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    The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

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  • Author Irving Babbitt
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    Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

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  • Author Joe Biden
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    In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

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  • Author Jorge Luis Borges
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    Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

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