Quotes About Trends

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.

Here is what I know about dressing like your teenage daughter: She will always look better than you

To my mind, fashion is one of the wickedest things in the world.

that's where the money is in publishing—people who don't read.

The guy walking past was wearing a shit five sizes too big (innovated by gangbangers to hide guns in their waistbands), shorts down below his knees (innovated by surfers to keep their thighs from getting sunburned), and oversized shoes (innovated by skaters to save their feet from injury).

Gods are so last year," Hiro said, and Aya smiled.

decade after decade and war after war, American combat deaths have generally dropped while disability claims have risen. Most disability claims are for medical issues and should decline with casualty rates and combat intensity, but they don't.

More fashion = less need for quality

It's called Zipf's law, and it applies to résumés and college application rates and best-selling records and everything in between. Winners win big because the marketplace loves a winner.

Normalization creates culture, and culture drives our choices, which leads to more normalization.

I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

It'll play in Peoria.

Iedereen noemt zijn schip dezer dagen maar naar vogels. - Erak

Disco sure did suck.

nearly all studies consistently show that couples who live together before they marry are more, not less, likely to later divorce than couples who did not live together before their weddings.

Incidentally, it seems that 'apartment' has finally taken over from 'flat'; I fancy they'll soon have 'closets' rather than wardrobes. Anyway,

In 1970 just 5 percent of the U.S. population was Hispanic. By 2013 this had risen to 17 percent, and population projections suggest that perhaps 28 percent of the population might be Hispanic in 2050, though, as discussed in chapter 2, the actual percentage will depend on how data are collected in the future and changing patterns of self-identification, especially among people of mixed-ethnic origins.

Consumer staples usually underperform the S&P 500 during bull markets and outperform it during bear markets.

Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Sugar historian Noel Deerr estimates that per capita sugar consumption was four pounds in 1700, eight pounds by 1729, twelve by 1789, the year of the French Revolution, and eighteen pounds by 1809.