Quotes About Trends

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.

Once upon a time, fashion was complex, and ostentatious was considered better.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

Falling in love in our generation just isn't as popular as it used to be.

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.

The fashion cycle is outdated.

I guess I'd never formed any hard opinions of '80s fashion, other than that it was pretty outrageous, you know.

I did feel a bit of an outsider in the Eighties. But there was a market for me out there. New Romantics were totally different.

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

The 80s was an outstanding era.

I grew up in the '90s, so I've definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

It's easier for fans to consume one or two songs at a time. Not everybody buys records, so some songs can get overlooked.

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

Cool technology alone is not enough. If it were, we'd all be riding Segways and playing with robotic dogs.

One of the constants of mass psychology is that, for example, when the Huns show up, the Goths move on looking for greener pastures without any Huns. In the United States we can see this, in proto form, in California, where the population of the culturally Anglo are leaving in greater numbers than are coming in.

Does this mean that religious consumption will increase online? That could be. We do not know yet, but to expect religion to disappear because of online technology is like expecting people to stop listening to music because Napster, Spotify and Wimp are offering us all the music we want online

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

We wrote, "The constancy of these somewhat independent results encourages us to conclude that 21st century warming will be modest and near the low end of the IPCC TAR [Third Assessment Report] projections.

The stock market has predicted nine out of the last five recessions.