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Quotes About Trends

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.
~ Bill Gates
I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.
~ Caroline Corr
The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.
~ Danny Brown
Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.
~ David Talbot
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.
~ Dick Wolf
About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.
~ Marie Windsor
I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.
~ Tom Jones
If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.
~ Herman Leonard
I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey.
~ Howie Klein
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
~ Linda Barnes
Gun sales have spiked every time Democrats win elections since 1980.
~ Mike Cooley
I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.
~ Robert Pattinson
The radio craze will die out in time.
~ Thomas A. Edison
When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.
~ Heidi Klum
I am saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment
~ Marilynne Robinson
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~ Mark Bourrie
Many people just like to show that they're thinking the right thoughts. And as the 'right' thoughts change like the wind, so do they.
~ Mark Helprin
in those days children were rather out of fashion.
~ Anthony Powell
Shiller found that when he adjusted for inflation, US housing prices have been nearly flat for a century! He exploded one of the biggest myths of our time: that home prices keep going up and up. "Unless there's a bubble," he told me. And we all know what eventually happens to bubbles.
~ Anthony Robbins
But as the world goes now, young widows are not miserable; and there is, perhaps, a growing tendency in society to claim from them year by year still less of any misery that may be avoidable. Suttee propensities of all sorts, from burning alive down to bombazine and hideous forms of clothing, are becoming less and less popular among the nations, and women are beginning to learn that, let what misfortunes will come upon them, it is well for them to be as happy as their nature will allow them
~ Anthony Trollope
We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit of the times, and write up to it too, if that cacoethes be upon us, or else we are nought.
~ Anthony Trollope
it is the only advanced society in which the incomes of the majority have not risen in the 1980s and 1990s, despite steady increases in productivity.
~ Arne L Kalleberg
Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.
~ Simone Weil
Becky! Love! Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. What's wrong? Has labor started? Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends.
~ Sophie Kinsella