Fashionable Quotes - Page 6

• I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Perfection, Excellence, Spirit

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• It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.

  Sugata Mitra

  Motivation, Inspiration, Broken

  "Build a School in the Cloud". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

  Greg Egan

  Flying, Kind, Drag

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• The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.

  Joseph Priestley

  Science, Light, Air

  Joseph Priestley (1775). “Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air: Vol. II. By Joseph Priestley, ...”, p.102

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• It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.

  Roger Mahony

  Hard Work, America, Mexico

  "Perspective: Ours is a nation that should know better". staugustine.com. June 04, 2005.

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• We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

  Arthur Erickson

  Fashion, Believe, Inspiration

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• You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret...
  One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed.
  In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

  Gene Edwards

  Art, Two, Secret

  "A Tale of Three Kings". Book by Gene Edwards, 1980.

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• Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.

  Denys Johnson-Davies

  Writing, Years, Fiction

  "Naguib Mahfouz" by Denys Johnson-Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!

  Lorrie Fair

  Athlete, School, Thinking

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• You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Beautiful, New York, Smart

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• Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome and were accompanied by the eventual disappearance of slavery in all but the fringes of Christian Europe. When Europeans subsequently instituted slavery in the New World, they did so over strenuous papal opposition, a fact that was conveniently 'lost' from history until recently. Finally, the abolition of New World slavery was initiated and achieved by Christian activists.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Rome, Europe

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• But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Eye, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.93, Penguin

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• It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.

  Bobby Jindal

  Fighting, Obamacare, Arguing

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• Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Passion, Mean, Men

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.246, Wildside Press LLC

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• After visiting several of America's most fashionable playgrounds, I have reached the conclusion that men who work hard enjoy life most. The men at such places can be divided into two classes, first, busy men of affairs ... and, second, rich loafers. I was impressed by the obvious enjoyment corporation heads and other important executives were deriving from their vacation activities.... The idle rich fellows, on the other hand, although indulging in exactly the same activities, palpably were bored.

  B. C. Forbes

  Hard Work, Men, Vacation

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• Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Heart, Men, Mind

  "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 8, 1837.

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• Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Land, Long

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• I created my bags from the notion of developing a well-edited line of fashionable, but not "trendy" handbags. By designing styles that will be as relevant tomorrow as they are today, my brand has established itself as a modern classic.

  Kate Spade

  Design, Style, Today

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• Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.

  Ron Paul

  Military, Government, Class

  "The Revolution: A Manifesto". Book by Ron Paul, 2008.

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• People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place.

  David Beckham

  People, Hong Kong, Reason

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

  Matthew Hussey

  Done, Fads, Trendy

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

  John Simon

  Player, Games, Jars

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• Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.

  Arthur Young

  Believe, Taken, Blessing

  Arthur Young (1889). “Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789”

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• I design for a woman who is on the go. Women are busier than ever, and I wanted to design a collection that can go from day to night and be fashionable. Sometimes I wear three outfits in one day.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Night, Design, One Day

  "Giuliana Rancic on Oscar Fashion and Why "Every True Fashionista" Should Aim to Be on the Worst-Dressed List". Interview with Sophia Chabbott, www.glamour.com. February 21, 2014.

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• The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Get Well, Medicine, Patient

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.107

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