fad QUOTES

1 " Cell phones are certainly not necessary, and " but I'm from the digital age, this is what everyone in my generation is doing!" isn't a very good excuse for being hooked on a glowing screen 24/7. In the 1960's every teen of the times was tripping on acid and running off to find themselves in communes and love buses. It was a fad, there was no excuse for it and it passed, just like I think that this generation's " cell phones are necessary for socialization" fad will eventually pass. What will it bring afterwards? I don't even want to know, but I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope that it isn't anything else digital. "

2 " At the dawn of the second decade of the Twenty First Century, masculinity has been rendered so self-conscious in our mediated, mirrored world that even ‘regular guys’ are apparently just a fashion fad – this season’s accessory. "

― Mark Simpson , Metrosexy

3 " The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford. "

― Portia de Rossi , Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

4 " We spend enormous amounts of time and money on fad diets, expensive exercise machines, and health clubs. For many people, these things only demonstrate their preoccupation with the physical side of life . . . but even more important is taking care of our souls. "

― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes

5 " Beware, then, of the long word that's no better than the short word: " assistance" (help), " numerous" (many), " facilitate" (ease), " Individual" (man or woman), " remainder" (rest), " initial" (first), " implement" (do), " sufficient" (enough), " attempt" (try), " referred to as" (called), and hundreds more. Beware of all the slippery new fad words: paradigm and parameter, prioritize and potentialize. They are all weeds that will smother what you write. Don't dialogue with someone you can talk to. Don't interface with anybody. "

6 " The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion. "

― A.E. Samaan

7 " There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion. "

― A.E. Samaan

8 " History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters. "

― A.E. Samaan

9 " The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul. "

10 " This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the core was a sweet faith in human nature. If we empowered individuals, we believed, more good than harm would result.The way the internet has gone sour since then is truly perverse. The central faith of the web's early design has been superseded by a different faith in the centrality of imaginary entities epitomized by the idea that the internet as a whole is coming alive and turning into a superhuman creature. The designs guided by this new, perverse kind of faith put people back in the shadows. The fad for anonymity has undone the great opening-of-everyone's-windows of the 1990s. While that reversal has empowered sadists to a degree, the worst effect is a degradation of ordinary people. "

11 " I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among young people. They say, look at so-and-so, he's a pot head and look what it has done for him. The truth is, he was talented to start with. I mean, if you have vacuity and expand it, you still have vacuity. "

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12 " With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention. "

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

14 " For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all. "

15 " I've probably tried every fad diet in the world. "

16 " My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet. "

17 " I've never been on a fad diet. "

18 " Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace. "