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  • From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes. They called that the "fist." St. George, they have a fist. You taste something from St. George, even across categories - the gin, the whisky - it tastes like something from St. George. It's the same as going to a great bar: You get the soul of the person making it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Rogers Quotes , Soul Quotes , Style Quotes
  • The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Style Quotes , Addresses Quotes
  • Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Style Quotes
  • I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Style Quotes , Matter Quotes