Quotes About Fads

Speed is vital. You got to strike fast. Fads have short lives, and you got to get what you can - like the case of the Pet Rock.

My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a fad way of talking among certain people. It's based on the concept that in every syllable before the vowel and after the preceding constant you insert the word 'egg.' So, my name Phil would be 'Pegghil.'

People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

I am a sucker for jackets!

I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone.

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that'll be the thing to do.

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

Human beings are carried away by every new theory.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

Everything that is popular is wrong.

Publicly, they claim to be thrilled to have the opportunity to engage directly with their customers; privately, they suspect, maybe even fervently hope, that Facebook and its spawn are fads.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

We cannot reinvent our fundamental institutions without going against the created order. Some Christians are bending God's rules to satisfy self. As the fads and trends around us come and go, one person endures: Jesus Christ. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Heb. 13:8) He is exalted in the heavens, and the earth is His footstool. from: I Never Thought I'd See the Day

Platform flip-flops. Those were crazy. Wait, I don't think they were ever fashionable. But we saw them everywhere.

I don't even know what is popular.

Of course, no single entertainment device can enjoy eternal popularity.

Diets are a scam.

He often has followed current fads and modes in an attempt to affiliate himself more firmly with the structures of contemporary existence.

A lot of the stuff people are wearing, the kids from school wear too. Fashion really is cyclical.

Fads are born to die.

Most people who have had big fads have turned out to be just like their products: one-shot deals.

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.