Quotes About Fads

#1. 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?

Connie Willis

#2. Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Edward Abbey

#3. Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Jack Kerouac

#4. Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

Walter Lippmann

#5. The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.

Joel R. Beeke

#6. Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes.

Eric Betzig

#7. American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Diane Ravitch

#8. 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.

Charles Bukowski

#9. Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

Ray Davies

#10. I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. That they become fads. I also feel that demonstrations wouldn't go on unless there is a TV camera. That part of it all is performance for the media. I didn't know whether they are completely honest.

Frank Capra

#11. Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

Greil Marcus

#12. In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

Stephen L. Carter

#13. You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Will Sergeant

#14. Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Colin Powell

#15. Change bothers me. I don't cope too well with fashions, fads and urban traffic lights.

Fennel Hudson

#16. 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.

Steve Albini

#17. I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. It was left to the Progressive movement in America (as to the Fabians in Britain) to promote eugenics, Prohibition, dietary fads, the compulsory sterilisation of those they deemed 'unfit', and preferential treatment in immigration law of 'Nordic' (and preferably Protestant) immigrants.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#19. Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.

Clint Eastwood

#20. The psychological theories that inform day-to-day business practices are comprised mostly of folk-psychology, fads, and myths.

Paul Gibbons

#21. The modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

G.K. Chesterton

#22. Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.

Jeffrey Steingarten

#23. In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

Julia Child

#24. Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.

Natalie Dormer

#25. Out this way there was the lonely last pub, the Castle, which now had an angry chalkboard sign up that said "drinkers welcome" to indicate its dissatisfaction with other establishments' fads like pub quizzes, bands, food, and, presumably, conversation.

Paul Cornell

#26. Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

Dolores Hitchens

#27. She reverse engineered a startup based on market conditions, industry trends, and nascent investor fads.

Douglas Rushkoff

#28. My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

Arnold Palmer

#29. When I buy clothes, I like to buy them in outfits so I know they go together. I like a very simple, natural style. I never like to be the attention getter; I like to come under the radar and be cool about my look, very classic and stylish. I'm not into fads.

Rena Sofer

#30. Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

Connie Willis

#31. ...salads are just weight-loss fads.

J.A. Redmerski

#32. 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.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#33. Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.

Robert J. Flaherty

#34. The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.

Aubrey Daniels

#35. Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon politicians who have another agenda yet:
to cater to the temporary whims and fads of the public and the press.

P. J. O'Rourke

#36. We've had all the ebbs and flows of any real career. Trust me. We've been at the highest highs and pretty low lows. But that said, we always stay true to who we were. We didn't jump on fads and fashions.

Jon Bon Jovi

#37. I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.

Nancy Meyers

#38. Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

Conway Twitty

#39. We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Milton Glaser

#40. All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

Jared Diamond

#41. To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

Alan Jackson

#42. Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.

Douglas Rushkoff

#43. The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.

Tyler Cowen

#44. In the extreme, fads can arise, spread through, and then disappear from a community in a fraction of a human generation.

Hal Whitehead

#45. The cult of self has become an addiction - feeding off the ego of self-glorification. The word cult encompasses many movements and ideas, but simply put, it describes a culture of alternative beliefs, fads, and trends, and tampers with just enough truth to knock many off balance.

Billy Graham

#46. Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.

Michael Mauboussin

#47. You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.

Connie Willis

#48. Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

Anthony Standen

#49. I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Grace Paley

#50. It seems to me a very real problem, to which I have never seen an answer even such as I shall attempt here, why a democracy should produce fads; and why, where there is so genuine a sense of human dignity, there should be so much of an impossible petty tyranny.

G.K. Chesterton

#51. Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.

Joan D. Chittister

#52. We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

Jimmy Carter

#53. American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

Diane Ravitch

#54. Marketing has long known how to exploit fads and how to develop trends.

Geoffrey Moore

#55. Day to day, I love eating soup and salad; lots of stews, fish, chicken, meat and veg. I eat everything, and I don't have any fads.

Jerry Hall

#56. There are fads ion science, just as there are fads in clothes

Fulton J. Sheen

#57. One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

Edward Snowden

#58. The internet is just a passing fad.

Bill Gates

#59. Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing.

Milton S. Hershey

#60. The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.

Steve Stockman

#61. At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

Sumner Redstone

#62. I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.

Janeane Garofalo

#63. In 2008, Barack Obama was the electoral equivalent of the Hula Hoop; a political Pet Rock; a craze, a fad, an irrational gadget. The latest have-to-have, must-vote-for candidate.

Mondo Frazier

#64. It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice ... Restorative justice is a fad.

Douglas Carswell

#65. The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

Nathan Pritikin

#66. R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

Aretha Franklin

#67. I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life.

Matthew Hussey

#68. If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Barry Commoner

#69. Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

Peter De Vries

#70. Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.

Alan Freed

#71. Social Media isn't a fad, it's a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.

Erik Qualman

#72. [Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

Paul Henderson

#73. I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.

Eddie Vedder

#74. Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#75. Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.

Bill Bryson

#76. Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.

Paul Samuelson

#77. Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#78. I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.

Evelyn Waugh

#79. Take your time. Some of these fad diets and quick fixes, they might be quick, but you're going to crash and burn.

Julianne Hough

#80. Bitcoins are not an investment. They are an investment fad that someday could be a real digital currency, but if they continue to behave as they have, they will instead be nothing.

Kurt Eichenwald

#81. Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

Bridget Christie

#82. Social media is not a fad because it's human.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#83. Miniskirts have become quite a fad. They're even some guys wearing them. Don't laugh, if you had thought to of that, you'd not be here now.

Bob Hope

#84. Vampire fad just won't die. Makes sense, I guess.

Demetri Martin

#85. If I had a dime for every time I heard someone say that they're tired of a genre (zombies) because it's only a fad, I'd be rich. #DeadRising

Ace Antonio Hall

#86. When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

Mary Travers

#87. Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

Mick Jagger

#88. The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

David Lloyd George

#89. Whenever I'm interested in something, I know the timing's off, because I'm always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I'm not interested any more.

Andy Warhol

#90. Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

Alfred Stieglitz