Popularity Quotes

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

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.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.

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.

Bush's popularity is at 40% in South America? He could be their president!

Popularity has become its own justification.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Popularity is totally overrated.

I think it's important to remember how quickly sports popularity can change.

You guys are weird," Tori said. Simon sat on the crate beside me. "That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.

Popularity means people think they know you.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.

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

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

Popularity can be a real headache.

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

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

People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.

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.

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.

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.

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

It's so much fun! Girls just think that it is all about popularity, but it's not. You have to work really hard if you want to be good at cheerleading. It's just like any other sport!

Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.

I hope to always be able to relate to my fans and be in the moment with the world and the community. I think as you gain popularity it's easy to loose touch and become disconnected.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.