Popular Quotes

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.

I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

I have popular support.

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.

Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.