Popular Quotes - page 2

You are not in business to be popular. (Kirstie Alley)
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. View quote
W. H. Auden
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose. View quote
Gene Simmons
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. View quote
Rudy Giuliani
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. View quote
Thom Gunn
Compassion is not a popular virtue. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Everything popular is wrong. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it? View quote
Don DeLillo
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. (Carl Bernstein)
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. View quote
Douglas Adams
We already had success in creating a democratic, national government that is revolutionary and popular. That is how socialism begins, not with decrees. View quote
Salvador Allende
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother. View quote
Jared Leto
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion. View quote
John Stuart Mill
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Frank Herbert
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it's right. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. View quote
James D. Watson
Has it popular sovereignty not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death. (Abraham Lincoln)
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own. View quote
Fran Drescher
Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time. View quote
David Benioff
Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you're popular enough. View quote
E. Lockhart