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Quotes About Fad

entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive for a dozen weeks, and then vanish utterly.
~ William Gibson
Doing something really profound and personal is bigger than a fad. It's not some passing fancy. It's always number one.
~ Chris Rock
Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion.
~ Jean Cocteau
Some leaders implement the latest fad technique without properly researching it. These new techniques will generally work dry, but throw in role players and simunitions, and the problems jump out at you.
~ Unknown
Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.
~ Ray Davies
Elk 'ideaal', in het begin gevoed door het bloed van zijn adepten, verbruikt zichzelf en verdwijnt naarmate het door de massa wordt overgenomen.
~ Cioran
If it's good, they'll stop making it.
~ Unknown
What is more useless than the popular novel that has passed its boom!
~ Holbrook Jackson
Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out.
~ Paul Di Filippo
Contextualization is not simply a fad or catch-word but a theological necessity demanded by the incarnational nature of the Word.
~ Unknown
If I want to make a product that is appealing to consumers, like a piece of clothing or a video game, that's fad driven. Some companies do it, and I don't know how they do it, but it's generally a bad place to invest.
~ Steve Jurvetson
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
~ Bill Watterson
A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Housing traditionally is not viewed as a great investment. It takes maintenance; it depreciates. It goes out of style. All of those are problems. And there's technical progress in housing. So, new ones are better. So, why was it considered an investment? That was a fad.
~ Robert J. Shiller
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.
~ Shelby Steele
Herd Mentality is when you follow a person or a trend just because it has been a hit once or twice.
~ Nikita Dudani
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
~ Sean Bean
At the dawn of the second decade of the Twenty First Century, masculinity has been rendered so self-conscious in our mediated, mirrored world that even 'regular guys' are apparently just a fashion fad – this season's accessory.
~ Unknown
In eighteenth-century England, a fad swept the upper class. Several families felt their estate needed a hermit, and advertisements were placed in newspapers for "ornamental hermits" who were slack in grooming and willing to sleep in a cave.
~ Michael Finkel
Although Postmodernism was certainly a fad, it was also a Zeitgeist, or spirit of the times. It meant something, despite its own best efforts, at least as a symptom. The disappearance of reality that it announced was itself real, as was the realm of simulation that replaced it.
~ Unknown