I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
~By Malin Akerman ~
The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.
~By Herbert Croly ~
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 ~
My clothes are very popular in Japan.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
~By William Devane ~
But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
~By Gary Gygax ~
The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
~By Phyllis George ~
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
~By Tab Hunter ~
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
~By Dave Barry ~
Art has never been a popularity contest.
~By James Levine ~
It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
~By Helen Slater ~
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
~By Colin Firth ~
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
~By Karen Morley ~
Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.
~By David Bromstad ~
Popular applause veers with the wind.
~By John Bright ~
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 ~
Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.
~By Stephen Stills ~
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
~By John Corigliano ~
I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.
~By Cindy Crawford ~
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 ~
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 had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
~By Sammy Cahn ~
My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.
~By Rose E. Bird ~
Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.
~By Tim LaHaye ~
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
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 ~
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
~By Herbert Croly ~
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
~By Billy Joel ~
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
~By Terri Windling ~
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
~By Shawn Colvin ~
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
~By Lara St. John ~
I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.
~By Kenny G ~
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
~By Billy Joel ~
In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.
~By Dinah Shore ~
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
~By Ezra Pound ~
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
~By George Ade ~
Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
~By Billy Eckstine ~
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
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 ~
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
~By Bill Paxton ~
I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.
~By Howard Fineman ~
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
~By Kurt Loder ~
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 ~
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.
~By Bill Dixon ~
It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
~By Antonio Banderas ~
I always got along with all types of people - popular people as well as drug addicts.
~By Amy Sedaris ~
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
~By John George Nicolay ~
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
~By Mel Torme ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
~By Elizabeth II ~
Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
~By Eddie Van Halen ~
I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine.
~By Fred Davis ~
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 ~
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
~By Namie Amuro ~
I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.
~By Mick Taylor ~
If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
~By Harold Ramis ~
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
~By Winston Churchill ~
You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
~By Wayne Coyne ~
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 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 ~
For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
~By Namie Amuro ~
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
~By Les Baxter ~
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 ~
Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.
~By Heinrich Mann ~
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
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 ~
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
~By John Lennon ~
I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.
~By Christopher Parker ~
The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.
~By Duff Green ~
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 ~
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 ~
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
~By William Cowper ~
I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
~By Fran Drescher ~
The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
~By Bill Alexander ~
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 ~
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
~By B. Carroll Reece ~
And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.
~By Gerald Scarfe ~
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
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