Quotes About Trendiness

Football is popular because stupidity is popular.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

The danger of being in fashion is that one day you'll be out of fashion.

I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable.

I think we're all guilty of it as British citizens: if something gets big, we go, 'Ugh.'

If a term becomes too popular, its irritant value is ramped up. The impulse is then to replace it with something else.

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

I really don't understand jelly shoes - those see-through, glittery, sandal-type things that girls wear. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they were ever popular.

For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.

They should put expiration dates on clothing so we men will know when they go out of style.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

There is always a new flavor of the month, especially in film.

That, more than any person or event, informed the experience of nineties life: an adversarial relationship with the unseemliness of trying too hard.

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Being different IS good IF you're rich, powerful, attractive, talented, and/or trendy enough to warrant it.

The retirees are gone from their plastic rockers on the front porches of the aging art-deco hotels. Hookers, dealers, pimps, chicken hawks, and runaways no longer stroll Ocean Drive, hustling their wares. The Yuppies have staked claims to South Beach, spiffing up the old buildings with turquoise and salmon paint, dressing themselves in bright, baggy cottons and silks, and hovering on the perimeter of perpetual trendiness.

I think you create your own hipness.