Popular Quotes

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

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.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

I wasn't the most popular kid in school.

I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

We opened a shop in Rotherham which does free demonstrations every day, six days a week and it's been very popular.

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.

A President cannot always be popular.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

Everything popular is wrong.

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.