Popular Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.”
– Brian Eno

“However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.”
– Simon Mainwaring

“Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.”
– Martin Scorsese

“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”
– Frank Herbert

“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.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a ‘flat white.’ It’s like a small latte with less milk – they’re popular in Australia.”
– Hugh Jackman

“The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.”
– Steve Jobs

“The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.”
– David Byrne

“Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.”
– Channing Pollock

“Here’s a habit I never thought I’d develop: I gravitate to anything online that’s marked ‘most popular’ or ‘most e-mailed.’ And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.”
– Susan Orlean

“What’s funny is that the idea of popularity – even the use of the word ‘popular’ – is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.”
– Susan Orlean

“There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.”
– Susan Orlean

“Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren’t nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.”
– Amanda Seyfried

“In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.”
– Bryant H. McGill

“I suppose because my work was so popular people didn’t really look at it.”
– David Bailey

“Gossip is more popular than literature.”
– Hugh Leonard

“My clothes are very popular in Japan.”
– Vivienne Westwood

“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

“To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can’t do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.”
– Jimmy Carter

“My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‘The Hornet’s Nest,’ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.”
– Jimmy Carter

“There’s been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.”
– Miranda Lambert

“Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.”
– Bill Gates

“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”
– W. H. Auden

“I wasn’t the most popular kid in school.”
– Daniel Radcliffe

“My message is: You don’t have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.”
– Danica McKellar

“Look at Jessica Simpson. She’s famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn’t that dumb, but that’s how she was perceived – and that’s what got popular.”
– Danica McKellar

“We would betray our values and play into our enemies’ hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.”
– Michael Bloomberg

“A President cannot always be popular.”
– Harry S. Truman

“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.”
– Amanda Seyfried

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