“This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.” PeopleMenDoneYoungOrderFightingHalfRightsHeardFashionYouthHe ManClaimsRidiculousSettingObligationSettingsComicGreekMaturityLatterShyPhenomenonPlatformsFulfilmentDisgraceful Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.” MadeHeardFashionFlowerHugeHorrorHats Author:Nancy Milford
“DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed.” MenMayNamesChanceHeardFashionHe ManNativeLatterPeterIrelandPrinted Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.” PoliticalPoliticsSinHeardFashionPoliticianDevilBlowAnvils Author:John Webster
“How did we lose our culture? Black people used to all do the same thing on Saturdays. We all watched "Soul Train" and "American Bandstand", got our fashion and dance tips, and then we emulated it and bought those records that we heard. Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds, and there's no uniformity. That bothers me.” PeopleSoulSeemsSchoolUsedCultureBlackLosesRecordsHeardFashionListeningTrainFishesBotherBlack PeopleSaturdayUniformitySoul TrainSchools Of Fish Author:DJ Quik
“Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before.” MadeGuyThreeSoundHeardFashionFingersLeapRotating Author:Earl Scruggs
“I always wanted to be a part of Nicolas Winding Refn world, but knew he would never make a movie that has a teenage girl as a lead. Obviously not. Then I heard he was and it was in the fashion world. What? Just combining what we think of [with Refn] - masculinity and violence - in his films with that world was so interesting to me.” ThinkingWorldWantedFilmGirlInterestingViolenceHeardFashionTeenageMasculinityCombiningTeenage GirlFashion World Author:Elle Fanning