Top 100 Pops Quotes
#2. In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.
Ma Huateng
#3. I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.
Anthony Mason
#4. If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
Chaka Khan
#7. If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.
Tom Waits
#8. Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.
Nina Persson
#9. I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.
Tina Charles
#10. People such as Blur's Alex James make too much of a fuss about champagne, just because it pops and it's fizzy and golden. Big deal. Rice Krispies do exactly the same
Frankie Poullain
#11. We [with David Cunningham] did do Top Of The Pops. It was an eye-opener. I mean, one of the things that was so interesting - I've talked about this a few times recently, and people can't believe it - they used to do this thing called tape switch with the Musicians Union.
David Toop
#12. I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it.
Marc Parent
#13. I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.
Tonya Mitchell
#14. I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.
Girl Talk
#15. Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done!
Madonna Ciccone
#16. If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.
Peter Maxwell Davies
#17. I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music.
Lady Gaga
#18. A new voice pops up on the comm, relayed from the station. March. "What the frag are you doing, Triumph? Who's at the helm? I didn't give clearance for a pleasure cruise."
"Can't talk, Commander," Hit answers smoothly. "We're busy saving your ass.
Ann Aguirre
#19. Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.
Gene Simmons
#20. A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
Christopher Buckley
#21. I never forget the first time I was on 'Top of the Pops', my bass player said: 'You've made it!' I did used to think, when I was younger, that I'd be on there one day.
Bonnie Tyler
#22. Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.
Mick Jagger
#23. I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.
Marvin Minsky
#24. Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.
Johnny Marr
#25. Do you guys have sunscreen?" I ask.
"No," Scottie says. "Do we have water?"
"Did you bring any?" Alex asks.
"No," I say.
Alex pops her head up. "Did you bring snacks for us?"
"We can walk to town."
How do mothers manage to bring everything a child could need?
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#26. You always share a higher level of trust with someone who pops your cherry.
K.F. Breene
#27. I imagined Martha Stewart trying to take over Pops kitchen. That would be better than Godzilla vs. Mothra
Piper Kerman
#28. My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
Kate Bush
#29. Hard as nails Stacy Killian was one like one of those Tootsie Roll Pops - hard shell, soft, chewy center.
Once a guy knew the center could be chewed, that's what they did. Chewed you up and spit you out. Or swallowed you, bite by bite. Goodbye respect. Goodbye self-esteem.
Erica Spindler
#30. Some experimenters have reported that an angry face "pops out" of a crowd of happy faces, but a single happy face does not stand out in an angry crowd. The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
Daniel Kahneman
#31. There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.
Sanaa Lathan
#32. I've made a career out of playing the id: the guy that says whatever pops into his head.
Tyler Labine
#33. And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
Pete Seeger
#34. When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.
Charlotte Rampling
#35. I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.
Shemar Moore
#36. If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.
Bill Shankly
#37. Defeating depression is like playing the carnival game Whac-a-mole. You have to give it your all and be on target to beat that sucker down when it pops up again and again. If you pay attention, learn from your past efforts, and keep at it, you can win." -Mel. Edwards
Mel Edwards
#38. I slide his pants over his hips. His cock pops out, nearly smacking me in the face. I bob and weave to avoid getting poked in the eye by his swinging dick. My lack of coordination is an unfortunate issue, and I inadvertently whack it.
Helena Hunting
#39. Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.
Pete Burns
#40. Because we are going to love this baby just the way she pops out, and if she's heterosexual, we're just going to tell her, honey, that's just the way you are and you can't help it.
Shukyou
#41. The whole experience has really stayed with me. Dunsfold pops into my head at the strangest times, and I run the track through in my head. 'I can go faster there and there ... '
Cameron Diaz
#42. I call him Pops because he is my true father; my creator. And we've had a special relationship. Whenever I felt lost or needed help or guidance, I could count on Pops.
Nick Carter
#43. Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.
Colin Meloy
#44. There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
Andy Stanley
#45. Everyday something new pops into my mind: I could do this next or I could do that next. I want to grow more and more and show people different sides of myself, whether it's different kinds of music, different kinds of movies, or different kinds of television.
LeAnn Rimes
#46. I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.
Paul Harding
#47. I should get points for not saying every dumb thing that pops in my head.
Susan Bischoff
#48. What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?
Jimmy Buffett
#49. Polish what you polish until it is like gold that has been refined a hundred times; anything that is done in a hurry is not deeply developed. Do what you do like a thousand-pound catapult; one who pops off too easily does not accomplish much.
Zicheng Hong
#50. Excuses are leaks in a boat. When you cover one, another pops up, and it's even bigger. It's hard to keep the boat repaired and get safely to shore if you have an excuse mind-set.
James Altucher
#51. I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.
Rod Stewart
#52. It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out of that and think, 'What would Said say about that,' and then it gets complicated.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#53. Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.
Jonny Greenwood
#54. We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
Twyla Tharp
#55. The balloon pops and I walk across a kitchen on a rainy day in February to check on eggs and bread and wine and sanity to check on glue to paste nice pictures on these walls.
Charles Bukowski
#56. Old Pops and I have got four good legs between us," he said. "Maybe that's enough.
Laura Hillenbrand
#57. I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.
Chris Elliott
#58. I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
Maya Angelou
#59. New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.
Toni Jerrman
#60. I come up with the ideas for my videos, and I write the lyrics and choreograph them, and I direct them and tell everyone what to do and how I want them to sing the parts and do the tongue pops and eye rolls and stuff like that.
Todrick Hall
#61. If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
Patrick Whitesell
#62. I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
Tom Peters
#63. You never know exactly what pop cultural moment a show is going to step into.
Ronald D. Moore
#64. When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.
LeBron James
#65. I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get to say whatever they want, whatever pops into their head. It's an opportunity to write the last draft of the screenplay as you're working on it.
Ivan Reitman
#66. A pair of glasses on which the temperature and chance of rain pops up or someone's trying to schedule me for a project or a drink is not going to help with reveries about justice, meaning, and the beautiful deep marine blue of nearly every dusk.
Rebecca Solnit
#67. In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show
Syd Barrett
#68. How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'
Ali Smith
#69. If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
Wanda Jackson
#71. Some questions had no right answers, only shades of wrong, and people couldn't live in black-and-white. Sometimes there were pops of glorious color, and on other occasions, gray was the only visible hue.
Ann Aguirre
#72. I almost have no nails left by the time his bubble pops up, but that's cool because everyone has fingernails, and I like to be different.
Tarryn Fisher
#73. I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.
Jimmy Buffett
#74. The body knows. When your heart sinks. When you feel sick to your gut. When something blossoms in your chest. When your brain gloriously pops. That's your body telling you the One True Thing. Listen to it.
Cheryl Strayed
#75. Just because a thought pops into your head does not mean it is fit to come out of your mouth.
Belle Blackburn
#76. Well, if Andre knocks you up and the baby pops out of you Alien-style, I'm shooting it.
Laura Thalassa
#77. But the memories ... one pops up, I push it away and then another appears.
Gayle Forman
#78. You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
Karrie Webb
#79. I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he's gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla.
Brad Warner
#80. As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
Robyn Hitchcock
#81. Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
David Walliams
#82. What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.
David Einhorn
#83. Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.
Andy Warhol
#84. I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
Ed Helms
#85. These things were happening in my life where I was like, 'Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.' I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn't saying, 'I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee's.'
Kid Cudi
#86. If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.
Robert Barry
#87. I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody and it's such a power hit of a track. Every time it pops on I like listening to it, I'm really drawn to it.
Lizzy Plapinger
#88. A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.
E.B. White
#89. Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a "life-is-like-this" on the page. I breathe and out pops another analogy. As of this moment, I am sole owner of 1,643 analogies.
Chila Woychik
#90. You have to watch your step with women these days, Pops. She could be involved with Yakuza or something. Even some of the girls in my class
you should hear the stuff they talk about. Fifteen years old, and there's nothing they don't know. We're not in the age of Peace and Love anymore.
Ryu Murakami
#91. You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
Gregg Easterbrook
#92. I clicked on a pop-up and got caught in a pornado.
Jack Hodgins
#93. Most blue-based colors help make the smile appear whiter and have the added benefit of making you look younger. Shimmering nude gloss also works well if bright pops of color are not your thing.
Tim Quinn
#94. I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.
Marianne Faithfull
#95. I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.
Nile Rodgers
#96. So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
Samuel Foote
#97. I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy.
Seungri
#98. I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.
Marc Almond
#99. The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks, and then it disappears into thin air.
Isabel Allende
#100. Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.
Jeanne Phillips
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