Popularity Quotes

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Popularity is not leadership.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.

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

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.

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.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

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

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human;

and that is the secret of his popularity.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

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.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.

I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up.

I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings.

Only one thing endures and that is character.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

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

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

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.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.

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.