Popular Quotes - page 8

The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat. (Mary Roach)
Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace. View quote
Novak Djokovic
My father has been a major force in the popular culture for a long, long time. He's a fascinating person. View quote
Owen King
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
So Beckendorf was pretty popular?" Leo asked. "I mean-before he blew up? View quote
Rick Riordan
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly. View quote
Seth Rogen
I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means. View quote
Cindy Crawford
Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern. View quote
Susan Orlean
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business. (Helen Fisher)
It is not infrequently our custom to seek to cover our own blank ignorance of certain subjects with the confident assertion that nothing ever has been or can be really known... and our treatment of this question of the life after death is one of the worst examples of this habit. If popular theology had not most unhappily altogether lost sight of the cardinal doctrine of reincarnation, its· views on this subject of death would naturally be entirely different. A man who realizes that he has died many times before regards the operation more philosophically than one who believes it to be an absolutely new experience fraught with all kinds of vague· and awful possibilities. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good. View quote
Brendan Fraser
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity. View quote
Alex Berenson
Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one of those games involves popular offerings. View quote
Alex Berenson
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. View quote
James Surowiecki
Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families. View quote
James Surowiecki
Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing. View quote
Jeremy Paxman
I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing. View quote
Josh Hartnett
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible. (Douglas Kennedy)
Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious. View quote
Edward C. Prescott
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. View quote
Elihu Root
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss? View quote
Alice Hoffman
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. View quote
Ken Follett