Best 234 quotes in «popularity quotes» category

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

One of the things that drives Trump's popularity is that he sticks it to these people in the media. And people love seeing that.

Please repeat: influence is not popularity.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

Popularity is not the single determining factor, as we all know, in how people vote.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.

Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

The reason why Donald Trump does have a very strong base of popularity is he's an authentic person and not necessarily a politician.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

The THE TABLOIDS are always going to be a war for POPULARITY in the CELEB world.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution." [Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

A fast car can make women 'like' a man; and a man 'like' women … fast.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

Alles Populäre ist falsch.

A man who tells you to follow him, will turn his followers into his company. While a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers. -- Suzy Kassem

All I can say is, Brad totally wasn't worth it. He was SO not my type. I only hooked up with him because I was trying to see if popularity could be sexually transmitted. Turns out it can't.