Fashionable Ideas Quotes

#1. In his 1978 Harvard commencement address, Solzhenitsyn listed a litany of woes facing the West: the loss of courage and will, the addiction to comfort, the abuse of freedom, the capitulation of intellectuals to fashionable ideas, the attitude of appeasement with evil.

Charles W. Colson

#2. A house. A lot of vegetables. And a giant spaceship.

Marissa Meyer

#3. For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

George Santayana

#4. They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by calling them 'clever.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.

Paul Theroux

#6. When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going out for a big fancy night versus going out in the daytime. But I also found that I was changing and growing so much.

Blake Lively

#7. The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe
because no one else could be such a fool.

Thomas Sowell

#8. I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.

Dave Mustaine

#9. If people want to change, they will. If they don't want to, it's hard to make them do so. The current interest in the environment is a good thing. The best way to make a contribution in fashion is to promote the idea that a fundamental interest in preserving the environment is itself fashionable.

Giorgio Armani

#10. The girl might have an unsettling crying problem, but she was pure steel.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#11. His distaste was palpable. Although he cultivated ideas that embraced the perverse and forbidden, Stephen was squeamish, and his adventures were strictly of the fashionable, literary sort.

Siri Hustvedt

#12. What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Jean Marais

#13. There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

Bianca Jagger

#14. Keep calm in the midst of the storms of life. Stay focus on the ultimate prize.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

Sydney Pollack

#16. You must be fearless to take the path less traveled.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Murray Kempton

#18. He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.

Cassandra Clare

#19. [Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.

Margaret Cho

#20. Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.

Mas Oyama

#21. Maybe, these ideas are pointing to something mystical and true. And perhaps i am judging hte idea, not by its merit, but by the fashionable or unfashionable delivery of the message.

Donald Miller

#22. First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.

Lev Polugaevsky

#23. If I cry on telly, I'm genuinely crying. If it's a gritty scene it can come naturally.

Kelvin Fletcher