Popular Quotes

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

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.

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

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.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.