Quotes About Trends

Rich women, including the queen, made themselves additionally beauteous by bleaching their skin with compounds of borax, sulfur, and lead—all at least mildly toxic

What if we are all getting stupid at more or less the same rate and we don't realize it because we are all declining together? You might argue that we'd see a general fall in IQ scores, but what if it's not the kind of deterioration that shows up in IQ tests? What if it were reflected in just, say, poor judgment or diminished taste? We

Language is more fashion than science

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

Although we can predict the course of broad trends, like "there will be more hot days" and "sea levels will go up," we can't with certainty blame climate change for any particular event. For example, when there's a heat wave, we can't say whether it was caused by climate change alone. What we can do, though, is say how much climate change increased the odds of that heat wave happening.

celebrity. The number one topic on network evening newscasts for the decade was crime, even though crime rates nationally were plummeting during the period.

In America, there's no idea so patently absurd that it can't catch on.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

You know what's the rage this year? ...Hats.

Contemporary trends of thought have imagined art to be a fountain, whereas it is a sponge. They have decided that art ought to gush forth, whereas it should absorb and become saturated. They think it can be broken down into means of depiction, whereas it is composed of organs of perception. Its proper task is to be always among the spectators and to look more purely, receptively and faithfully than all others.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Tampoco hay que despreciar el hecho que el índice de crecimiento demográfico es tanto más elevado cuanto más se desciende en la escala social, lo que constituye un factor suplementario de regresión.

A hundred years ago, our ancestors could expect fewer than fifty birthdays—and even that was nearly twenty more than the global average. In 2010, the worldwide average had risen to 67.2 years, and even 78.2 years in the United States. That

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

I love Forever 21. A friend of mine introduced it to me when I was in New York. I was borrowing a dress and said, 'Where's that from?' and she said, 'Oh, it's Forever 21,' and I said, 'What, I've never heard of that!' and she said, 'Oh it's this American brand,' and I thought, 'Why doesn't England have that; why doesn't Europe have one?'

We're guided by consumer data, and it helps give us the confidence to invest where the consumer is going.

Investors tend to avoid food companies.

I think that some people will never buy a computer because I think now we're at the point where the iPad does what some people want to do with their PCs.

I had an iPhone for a while, I gave that to my grandson. Kids are really caught up in that.

First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c.

I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really.

I don't own an iPod.