Quotes About Trends

Two currents of West Coast art . . . the 'dirties' and the 'cleans'.

All she knew was what she read in the papers, where it seemed that people no longer lived their lives, but had life-styles instead.

There are plenty of violent people, but for any randomly selected person today the chances of meeting a violent death at the hands of his or her fellow humans is lower now than it has ever been in human history.

With many important exceptions, the tone of much American historical writing turned deeply negative during the early twenty-first century. It remained so as these words were written, in 2021.

How, then, when today's mental-health trend is to categorize more and more marginally problematic human behaviors as diagnosable "disorders," does the mental/emotional state that craves having healthy body parts amputated in a pathetic and utterly impossible quest to change genders become magically transformed into something "normal"? NBC

What looks good now is guaranteed to embarrass you twenty years down the line, which is, of course, the whole problem with fashion.

Time is cruel to everything but seems to have singled out eyeglasses for special punishment. What looks good now is guaranteed to embarrass you twenty years down the line, which is, of course, the whole problem with fashion.

The nineties, ecstatic decade!

Like many academics, Howard was innocent of the world. He could identify thirty different ideological trends in the social sciences, but did not really know what a software engineer was.

It was the spirit of the times: we applied high theory to shampoo ads, philosophy to NWA videos.

I think Sephora is great; it's so accessible, and there are so many different palettes that you can get.

Technology can create needs even as it addresses them.

There was some real bad alternative - 'alternative' - stuff that came out in the '90s that's completely cringe-worthy.

It's amazing how English music manages to travel to America and obviously, American music in the U.K. is massive.

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.

If you look at things that are popular apps, it doesn't mean it's going to stick around.

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

Good times can be just as damaging to peace here in the United States. When the economy goes up, murders do not go down, they rise.

There's only one way to describe most investors: trend followers.

As I lean back in my chair, it seems like only yesterday as I think back to the mid-'80s, a time of mullets, Jordache jeans and skinny ties.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.