Quotes About Trends

'X-Force' #1 sold 5 million copies. By default, the second issue dipped and did 1.3 million copies. But the cover of 'X-Force' #2 is Deadpool. It's not X-Force, It's Deadpool.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.

I don't think I really do go shopping. Somehow clothes just kind of end up in my closet. I do not like shopping; I'm not into it.

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.

Information is key at these things: no one wants to be caught holding social stock that's about to crash.

These two trends—the decline of communal institutions and the expansion of corporate brands in our culture—have had an inverse, seesaw-like relationship to one another over the decades: as the influence of those institutions that provided us with that essential sense of belonging went down, the power of commercial brands went up.

In crucial states such as Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin, Clinton drew 15 to 20 percent fewer Democratic voters than Barack Obama had in 2012.

Sexuality follows fashion, which follows politics.

Today, Latvian women have become the tallest women in the world, jumping from about five foot one to five foot seven. Dutch men rose from five foot seven in 1860 to just over six feet tall, making them the tallest men on Earth.

By one estimate, genealogy has now become the second-most-popular search topic on the Internet. It is outranked only by porn.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.

Memes just show that people are engaged about something. A meme is just a little inside joke for a group of people that care about a certain thing.

Men and women shop very differently, and where women are open to edgy, conceptual looks, very, very few men are.

When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention.

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of came back.

Michael Jackson, the 49ers and the Lakers - that's what I know about the '80s.

What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die.

I was really into emo and scene culture in middle school.

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.