Top 40 Zeitgeist Quotes

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I’m one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you’ll miss it.

I think I might be hitting the zeitgeist. All around you, you’re looking at beautiful people that have been turned into robots. Maybe the eye is craving a little upper lip fur.

Wokeness, for what it’s worth, is a buzzword that a lot of people are not truly understanding the depth of. I think sometimes things work their way into the zeitgeist, and they lose their weight. And wokeness is one of those words that has reached that point.

I have a direct hand in the queer zeitgeist, and what I’m putting out there has to be something I’m proud of.

I had to make my history quick because there would be no future, merely a gossamer world blown about on the zeitgeist, till zeitgeist, the wind of the times, is blasted away by kamikaze, the wind of God.

I hope that one day, the world gets to a place where you don’t need to politicize your sexuality any more than someone needs to politicize their race – that we can just act and we can exist in this Zeitgeist, telling stories about one another.

I have a little antennae, and even when I’m trying not to be, I’m connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

I would say I’m the normal level of ‘SpongeBob’ fan, which is that it’s been out since I was a kid, and it’s part of the zeitgeist.

We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.

‘SNL’ came out in the ’70s. It’s a different zeitgeist. It’s hard to re-create it, just as it would be hard to do a black-and-white noir film now. The culture’s different.

If you don’t appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.

To be considered part of the fashion zeitgeist is fun, but it will never steal my focus from my qualifications as a food writer, presenter and communicator.

It was really fascinating for everyone involved in ‘Fargo’ that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you’re given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist – when you’re relevant. And I’m aware of that, and I don’t want my time to go by.

I’ve never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don’t interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist.

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

I really just like acting. I’m not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it’s an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it’s a love story, and it’s funny, and it’s light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

Touring can get really hard if you’re not hitting some fashionable zeitgeist.

I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you’ve contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that’s just an amazing feeling.

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.

I’m absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I’m a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It’s a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

Woodstock didn’t define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.

There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don’t know anything about the zeitgeist.

For a movie – any movie – to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist.

We are part of the zeitgeist, and we are communicating in a human, real way.

I’m trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.

Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West’s zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse.

Many of my works fall into the category of ‘Zeitgeist novels’. Yet I hope that they aren’t only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it’s inseparable from the success of ‘Silence of the Lambs’.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

Mucinex were like, ‘Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you’re sick right now’. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it’s all content.

I don’t understand people who travel purely gastronomically, who book a Michelin-starred restaurant three months in advance and suddenly find themselves in Copenhagen or Barcelona with a zeitgeist plate of snail porridge.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I’m choosing my homeland. It’s funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

It’s hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn’t in other places.