Quotes About Trends

The drive (Sterilization) was stepped up in July and gained momentum ..... the average of 331/operations per day in June rose to 1578 in July and shot up to 5644 in August...continued to a record 6,000 cases per day

i'm too fearful of the professors for whom art is only a derivative of philosophical and theoretical trends (The Art of the Novel, 32)

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.

Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.

A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspects of reality: statistics.

One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations

Una de las pocas leyes rigurosas de la historia es que los lujos tienden a convertirse en necesidades y a generar nuevas obligaciones.

Indeed, as people live longer and have fewer children, care of the elderly will probably be one of the fastest-growing sectors in the human labor market.

Com o envelhecimento da população e o decréscimo da taxa de natalidade, cuidar de idosos tenderá a ser um dos setores de maior crescimento no mercado de trabalho humano.

replication of cultural information units called 'memes'.

In the late 1800s, average consumption was 5 pounds a year per person; today, the figure has increased to an average of 135 pounds of sugar annually.(3)