Popularity quotes
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The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
-- Al Gore -
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
-- Al Gore -
I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.
-- Andy Richter -
I feel that what is probably the greatest enemy of longevity is popularity, and most people die of popularity.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
-- Aristotle -
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
-- Ben Jonson -
I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
-- Bette Midler -
If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
-- Bobby Knight -
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Please repeat: Influence is Not popularity.
-- Brian Solis -
I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.
-- D. L. Hughley -
What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
-- David Brin -
Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.
-- David Harsanyi -
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Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
-- Donald Fagen -
Horse racing is waning in popularity.
-- Elayne Boosler -
All language is a popularity contest.
-- Erin McKean -
Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!
-- Gary Allan -
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But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.
-- Gerard Arpey -
A President cannot always be popular.
-- Harry S. Truman -
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
-- Harry Stack Sullivan -
Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.
-- Heinrich Mann -
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
-- Indira Gandhi -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer
-- Irwin Shaw -
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.
-- J. K. Rowling -
You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.
-- Jack Welch -
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Art has never been a popularity contest.
-- James Levine -
The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
-- Jeffrey Archer -
Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.
-- John Bytheway -
I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.
-- John Keats -
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There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism
-- Jonathan Mayhew -
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
-- Juvenal -
Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
-- Karl Kraus -
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.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
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Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
-- Kin Hubbard -
Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.
-- L. Neil Smith -
Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.
-- Laura Bush -
Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.
-- Martha Stewart -
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
-- Max Beerbohm -
Popularity can be a real headache.
-- Michele Jaffe -
The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.
-- Mike Love -
Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.
-- Mike Murdock -
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it
-- Niccolo Paganini -
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
-- Oscar Wilde -
It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.
-- Publilius Syrus -
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Popularity is not leadership.
-- Richard Marcinko -
Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.
-- Ricky Gervais -
You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!
-- Robbie Williams -
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.
-- Robert Bringhurst -
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Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.
-- Robert Rankin -
Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.
-- Sir Fulke Greville -
I don't care with my popularity
-- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono -
Life is not a popularity contest
-- Susun Weed -
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The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.
-- T. D. Jakes -
The popularity of the party and Yingluck is getting more and more.
-- Thaksin Shinawatra -
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
-- Tom Selleck -
Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
-- Trent Reznor -
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
-- Vince McMahon -
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
-- Vincent Van Gogh -
Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
-- Washington Allston -
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
-- Wendell Phillips -
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Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
-- William Devane -
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield -
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
-- Wilson Mizner -
My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.
-- Wynton Marsalis -
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The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.
-- Roy Bedichek -
The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.
-- Terence Koh -
That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.
-- Tod Machover -
I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.
-- Ben Barnes -
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Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
-- Bruce Beresford -
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.
-- Corey Hart -
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.
-- The Edge -
A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.
-- Julien Green -
