Quotes About Unfashionable

#1. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules.

Iain M. Banks

#2. It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.

Lucy Powell

#3. Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.

Dorothea Dix

#4. The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

Martin Lewis Perl

#5. Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

Al Capp

#6. Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed the light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.

Louise Penny

#7. Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

Kiki Smith

#8. Punishment is now unfashionable ... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Thomas Szasz

#9. Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable.

Gail Jones

#10. [To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.

Dorothea Dix

#11. I passed through this stage years ago on Venus, where I was so unfashionable that eventually I almost convinced myself I no longer cared that nobody wanted me; but recent events have reawakened my need for intimacy.

Charles Stross

#12. It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile.

Chris Hesse

#13. I was fashionably late in my unfashionable clothes.

Jarod Kintz

#14. With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#15. Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox - finally irregulationary.

Jack Vance

#16. Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Douglas Hurd

#17. These books are all refreshingly clear-headed and unfashionable, free of cant and free of Kant;

Edward Feser

#18. Uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of

Douglas Adams

#19. More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Bertrand Russell

#20. In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called "corruption") when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich.

Paul Graham

#21. She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn't heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.

Jeremy Tiang

#22. I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and a positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

Robert Palmer

#23. To work problems out for yourself, to find you own way out of ignorance, to know the pleasure of knowing - these things improve the quality of life. Unfashionable, even impractical, but true.

Jessica Zafra

#24. Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#25. Be unfashionable. Take risks.

Paul Arden

#26. He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.

Chris Matthews

#27. True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Joseph Addison

#28. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

George Orwell

#29. People's feelings are as strong as they always were, and skepticism is probably as unfashionable today as in any other age. Accordingly,

Carl Sagan

#30. 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

#31. Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

Nick Hornby

#32. I have always thought foreigners with their unusual skin colours, mad languages and ignorant customs absolutely hilarious, and I think it's a shame that in recent years its become unfashionable to poke fun at them. I certainly don't think they themselves ever minded it.

Arthur Mathews

#33. She was a tall woman with unfashionable hips and a long chestnut braid singing down her back.

Toni Morrison

#34. When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'

Benjamin Hart

#35. Dresses that are truly beautiful are never unfashionable.

Elsa Schiaparelli

#36. This particularly unfashionable neighborhood was a shady one despite the absence of trees, and

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#37. Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode.

Sarah Hall

#38. My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

Vince Cable

#39. No matter that we could be beheaded for this," said Esa. "Heads are overrated."
"Yes, they are so unfashionable," said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent. "This spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks.

Shannon Hale

#40. Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.

Coco Chanel

#41. To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#42. It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

Peter Ackroyd

#43. Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately it is very unfashionable to talk with them.

Brandon Vogt

#44. Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Oscar Wilde

#45. Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Coco Chanel

#46. I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Paul Desmond

#47. There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

Bertrand Russell

#48. Traditionalism is not fashionable. It is the dog-crawl to fashion's catwalk.

Fennel Hudson