Faddist Quotes & Sayings

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet. — David Bowie

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one. — Samuel Butler

I think this had to do with the vintage of his family's money: the older the gold, the less shiny it tends to be. — Alena Graedon

Take a break from dating. This can be for as long as you need. But give yourself time to heal. I like to use the Wite-Out example. Unless you allow the Wite-Out to dry on the paper, writing over it will just cause a smudge and uncover what is still underneath. Wait until you heal before getting back out there. — Harlan Cohen

You don't need to live in a mansion to be happy. All you need is to create the right space, something that says this is who you are, and you can always change who you are, just as you change your environment. — Anthea Syrokou

He cares for me. He loves me. As a friend, sure. But love is love. Will — Leta Blake

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework ... procrastinating and negotiation. — Bill Watterson

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise. — Freddie Mercury

Man who is at the edge of a precipice has always a better chance to understand the universe than a man who is far away from that precipice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is. — Bill Skarsgard

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy. — Mark Linn-Baker

Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment ... — Albert Hadley

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust

It's the problem with having a logical mind and giving women the same credit for ability as men, he mused as he dismounted. You can't contrive reasons to keep them safe. — Raymond E. Feist

Yes, my buggy is outside and my horse has been acting up. I wondered if you could come rub its skull and tell me if it's got a bad case of stubborn, or if it might be indigestion? — Regina Jennings

But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist. — Warren Buffett