Popular Quotes

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.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

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.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

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.

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

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.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

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.