Popular Quotes

Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

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?

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

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.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.

A President cannot always be popular.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.