Popularity Quotes

• I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Musicians

• The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

  

  Paul Michael Glaser
  • Character
  • Car
  • Popularity

• I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.

  

  Jonah Hill
  • Experience
  • Issues
  • Popularity

• I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

  

  Moshe Safdie
  • Thinking
  • Public
  • Response

• You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.

  

  Steven Blum
  • Actors
  • Popularity
  • Anime

• Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Children
  • Income
  • Satisfy

• We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Men
  • Fame
  • Nation

• Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.

  

  Mike Murdock
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Popularity

• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Fame

• Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Character
  • Today
  • Wisdom

• There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

  

  Jonathan Mayhew
  • Patriotism
  • Popularity
  • Disguise

• Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Care

• It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Greatness
  • Competitive
  • Popularity

• We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Party
  • Principles
  • Popularity

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

  

  Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Popularity
  • Networking

• The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Work
  • Poverty
  • England

• 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.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Ideas
  • Needs
  • Stories

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