Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.
~By Jerry Vale ~
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job.
~By Bobby Heenan ~
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
~By Gene Simmons ~
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
~By Keith Richards ~
You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.
~By James E. Rogers ~
Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.
~By Andy Richter ~
While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
~By Earl Butz ~
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
~By Marty Meehan ~
George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.
~By Tony Snow ~
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
~By Doris Kearns Goodwin ~
I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.
~By Stephen Breyer ~
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
~By Ted Kotcheff ~
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.
~By Nils-Axel Morner ~
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades.
~By Ron Lewis ~
The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
~By Phyllis George ~
Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
~By Ian McKellen ~
It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.
~By Dusty Springfield ~
I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.
~By Shane West ~
Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
~By Lamar Alexander ~
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
~By Bing Crosby ~
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.
~By Roy Ayers ~
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
~By Channing Pollock ~
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
~By Carl Bernstein ~
My clothes are very popular in Japan.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.
~By Andrew Eldritch ~
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
~By Elizabeth II ~
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.
~By Diane Watson ~
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
~By B. Carroll Reece ~
Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.
~By Howard Dean ~
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
~By Walt Disney ~
You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.
~By Markus Wolf ~
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
~By James Madison ~
The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.
~By Rose E. Bird ~
When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
~By Faith Ford ~
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
~By Dee Hock ~
Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.
~By Marilu Henner ~
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
~By Frank Herbert ~
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.
~By Bill Maher ~
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.
~By Tim Meadows ~
I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
~By Sam Waterston ~
Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was.
~By Lesley Gore ~
So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
~By Ruth Gordon ~
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
~By Harrison Ford ~
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
~By Ethel Merman ~
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
~By David Attenborough ~
There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four.
~By Chester Brown ~
The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
~By Sammy Cahn ~
And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
~By Brad Bird ~
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
~By Madeleine Peyroux ~
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
~By Michael York ~
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
~By Tony Bennett ~
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
~By Brad Holland ~
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.
~By Bill Scott ~
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
~By Robert A. Dahl ~
My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
~By Roger Bannister ~
I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.
~By Marion Berry ~
When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.
~By Richard Holloway ~
We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.
~By Mark Hoppus ~
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
~By William Cowper ~
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
~By Fred Allen ~
The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.
~By Marvin Hagler ~
I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
~By Kevin Costner ~
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.
~By Howard Dean ~
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
~By Maximilien Robespierre ~
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
~By Marc Newson ~
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
~By Skitch Henderson ~
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
~By Mark Twain ~
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
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