Quotes About Trends

I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it.

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

In this [fashion] business you're living in the future a lot of the time.

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

My style when I was younger was still unique to me. I didn't necessarily dress by the trends, but I was always aware of what was trendy at the time and how I could apply it to my own sense of style.

Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.

I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing.

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

American political thought was not committed to conservatism, nor radicalism, nor moderation. It was above all fluid. As such it contained trends rather than hard lines, and affirmative leadership could guide it into constructive channels.

Whereas today people often understate their age to census takers, studies of past censuses have revealed that they used to overstate it.

As recently as 1945, most deaths occurred in the home. By the 1980s, just 17 percent did.

Initially the 30-week MA loses its downside slope and starts to flatten out. In addition, intermittent rallies and declines will toss the stock above and below the MA. During this stage, there will usually be several swings between support at the bottom of the trading range and resistance at the top of the range. This basing action can go on for months or, in some cases, years.

Volume is usually heavy in Stage 3 and the moves are sharp and choppy.

In the late 1960s a woman in the poorer countries of the world typically had six children. Today the average is fewer than three. In fact, demographers now project that the world's population will begin to decline before 2050.47

But the Newsweek claim was wrong even back in 1986. And by 2002 Hewlett's "nowadays" was already three decades out-of-date. More women than ever before are marrying for the first time at age thirty, forty, fifty, and even sixty.

By 1952 there were two million more working wives than there had been at the height of World War II.

More than half of Spanish women aged twenty-five to twenty-nine are single. The rate of marriage in Italy is much lower than in the United States. Japan shares with Scandinavia the distinction of having the highest percentage of unmarried women between age twenty and forty of anywhere in the world.44

The mass of people was ignorant, driven by fashions, fads, and the tongues of orators...