I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like…

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

— Bridget Christie

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Michael Mauboussin

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

“Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them and arrayed…

— Bill Bryson

I think that there was a fad where everyone said, 'I want you to create a signature step for my artist.' The thing is,…

— Laurieann Gibson

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

— Irving Thalberg

“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…

— Evelyn Waugh

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the…

— Stephen L. Carter

“Fashion is one of the greatest forms of manipulation.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

It became kind of a fad in the late '70s to try to help people wake up out of comas by hearing things that…

— Lemmy Kilmister

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just…

— Jam Master Jay

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop… Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,…

— Ellen Glasgow

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

— Dinah Shore

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we…

— Portia de Rossi