Quotes About Trends

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

There's a scientific debate about the precise scale of our sleep loss, but the National Sleep Foundation has calculated that the amount of sleep we get has dropped by 20 percent in just a hundred years.

Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

If you think of doing something in New York City, you can be certain that at least two thousand other people have the same thought. And of the two thousand who do, about one thousand will be standing in line waiting to do it.

This may seem like a harsh view of our culture, and there are certainly trends in other directions, but when we deal with culture at the tacit assumption level we have to think clearly about what our assumptions actually are, quite apart from our espoused values. The result of a pragmatic, individualistic, competitive, task-oriented culture is that humility is low on the value scale.

I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

As Maine goes, so goes the nation.

The signs of the times.

Trigonometry is a sine of the times.

The fashion of this world passeth away.

The market takes the stairs up and the elevator down.

In 1960 the US Census reported that 9 per cent of children lived in a family with one parent; by 2010 this had increased to 27 per cent. In the UK today, there is a similar proportion:

É certo — pergunta Jutta — fazer algo apenas porque todas as outras pessoas estão fazendo?

Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?

Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?

'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties.

The psychology of fashion is interesting because we're selling people something they don't really need. We're just selling them something that makes them feel good. Besides, there is nothing really new in fashion. Everything worth doing has been done before.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year.

Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to be published in, or they skim it online. They read what that market has been doing. They see a particular flavor of fiction.