Quotes About Trends

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.

My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut.

In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

Early Nineties - that was what it was all about: how people dressed on the terraces.

When there's just so many games out there to play, Nintendo games just went to the bottom of that list.

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.

We have no idea in what way tomorrow's consumers will want to consumer their media.

I have no idea what's going on in the fashion industry.

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

You could refuse to care about fashion if you wanted to, but if you were going to spend all your time in the company of with - it people, you needed to know when they were laughing at you.

The cinema is, after all, the most timid of the arts. It never sets trends, it merely reflects them. The harm has been done long before the movies set cameras on the scene. Warring teen-age gangs antedated Rebel Without A Cause , at least in the United States; and the most infamous teen-age killer in Philippine history operated during the liberation times, long before James Dean was heard of.

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

Median real income is below its level of twenty-five years ago. For males, median real income is below what it was in 1968.

Jonathan never takes anything personally; he always sees himself as a statistical reflection of a larger trend in society.

At this moment, some of the things I'm refusing to know anything about include: The former Soviet republics The Kardashians Twitter All Housewives, Survivors, American Idols, and Bachelors Karzai's brother Soccer Monkfish

Why do people always have to have new hair? If you didn't like the old hair, why did you have the old hair? Then you won't like the new hair, and you'll have to have new new hair.

As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn't own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you don't own a TV simply means you're poor (or maybe depressed). In one ten-year span, high-end television usurped the cultural positions of film, rock, and literary fiction.

The two most durable joke constructions were (a) casually dismissing something new that would later become extremely common, and (b) referring to some forgotten triviality as if it were destined to be timeless.

this is how media devolution works: It creates an archetype that eventually dwarfs its origin.

The nineties were (and shall always remain) the absolute zenith for bands whose goal was selling records.

Hardcore Gen X-tacy was a fringe concern. Things regularly cited as generationally totemistic were almost always less popular than things devoid of cultural timeliness. Bridget Jones's Diary was more widely read than Jesus' Son. For every album sold by Courtney Love, Shania Twain sold fourteen. Over and over, the gap between what's most associated with Generation X dogma and the behavior of Generation X consumers is illogically vast.