#trends

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#clothes #fashion #follow #i #kind

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bandwagon #compassion #culture #fads #flattery

When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#public-opinion #sociology #trends #sociology

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded ↗

— Yogi Berra

#paradox #popularity #trends #humor

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi. ↗

— George Carlin

#names #trends #dreams

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them! ↗

— Frank Capra

#film-makers #follow #start #them #trends

Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#been #big #doing #done #else

When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends. ↗

— Frank Frazetta

#came #did #follow #i #my own

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#between #biology #branches #defined #epoch

We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#been #came #challenges #closely #downs