Trends Quotations

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

Just as you can identify eras of fashion by glancing at a piece of vintage clothing, logos create and follow trends over time.

Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.

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

The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

Never let a trend get in the way of creating a great outfit for yourself.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.

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.

The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.

I think Forever 21 is a great way to get in on the trends without spending a lot of money.

The reason I go for the designers is because they make me feel good. It's about finding clothes that make you feel good as a woman. If I like it, I'll wear it. You have to go with your instincts and not be led by trends.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

I believe someone should be able to dress according to the mood they're in. It shouldn't be forced and you shouldn't have to follow a trend.

Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist.

I’m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.

Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'

I don't think about fashion or trends - I've never really been that kind of person.

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.

History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.

I'm so excited for my first fragrance! I chose to partner with Dots because I love what they do for their customers, bringing them the hottest trends in fashion, accessories and fragrance at unbelievably low prices. It's amazing!

My mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

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.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.

You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into.

When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

I love to add '90s trends mixed with modern day pieces I find along my many travels. Like these cool fun hats from Europe I have. I love to collect different ones from every country. I have them from London to Brussels.

I've read a lot of fiction from writers just starting out, and the dialogue is a little bit forced, or it's almost too teenager-y, or too slang-y or putting too much technology or trends in there. I try to stay pretty trend-neutral. I try not to mention too many current bands or current TV shows.

As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends and fads run through the social organization of the population of musicians in the same way that they would run through a high school.

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top.

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

I like to wear what I feel good in, not what the latest trend is.

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.

I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

Beverages have to be created. And they're created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry - what color's hot right now.

We are pleased to offer the public this year, some of the most beautiful homes and gardens in Charlotte. The tour gives viewers a glimpse of some of the most exciting trends in home furnishings and gardening.

We started coming down at the end of August. So we've been coming down for about 10 weeks. Oil trends tend to go on for much longer than that, so we have got a continuation of the downward movement, whether on warm weather or on weak demand.

There is no question that these are trends that are going to add to people's anxiety and the process has already started.

We remain dissatisfied in the overall sales performance of our Circuit City business, ... no new trends on which to base any charges in earnings expectations." ()

When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles.

We believe Tom's departure is an indication of deteriorating two-year sales trends and decreasing support within the franchisee community.

Unless the situation is reversed, at some point these budget trends will cause serious economic disruptions,