Top 100 Quotes About Popularity
#1. That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.
Tod Machover
#2. If every word or device that achieved currency were immediately authenticated, simply on the grounds of popularity, the language would be as chaotic as a ball game with no foul lines
William Strunk Jr.
#3. In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.
Carlos Alvarez
#4. Well suited to those with large shoulders and feet like spades, swimming enjoyed a boost in popularity in Victorian times when, due to advancements in water husbandry, we were able to domesticate H2O, trapping large amounts of it in four-sided pits or 'pools'. I
Alan Partridge
#5. I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
Anthony Holden
#6. Popularity is not an indication of quality.
Vanna Bonta
#7. Most of social media is simply a popularity contest. Well, I'm not here for the competition; I have important business and words of depth to change the course. So, while you follow the path of the ignorant, the rest of us will celebrate truth and the higher path.
Dara Reidyr
#8. You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.
Chuck D
#9. The definition of cool: popularity without achievement. It's how President Obama got the youth vote. Ask any kid who voted for him,
Greg Gutfeld
#10. We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
Ezra Taft Benson
#11. The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing
Damon Knight
#12. Natalie, who was the author of a series of wildly successful Hunger Games meets Gossip Girl YA books about a clique of girls at a postapocalyptic prep school who have to simultaneously fight for popularity and for the survival of the planet - hadn
Doree Shafrir
#13. When you look at Kennedy and Nixon, TV played a crucial part in Kennedy's popularity. He was incredibly photogenic, while Nixon was this scowling figure. American viewers judged him on his appearance on TV.
Peyton Reed
#14. You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
#15. There is no easy way to do a deadlift - not involving actually picking up the bar - which explains their lack of popularity in gyms around the world.
Mark Rippetoe
#17. To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#18. But I decided that the popularity of something holds no value when I make my choices. I make decisions for me.
Cassie Mae
#19. It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.
Jesse Ventura
#20. The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
Leonard Ravenhill
#21. Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.
Martha Stewart
#22. Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.
Danica Patrick
#23. I feel that what is probably the greatest enemy of longevity is popularity, and most people die of popularity.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#24. The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.
Malcolm McLaren
#25. Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.
Jewel
#26. Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
Victor Hugo
#27. I was more comfortable with guys growing up, but now I find myself more comfortable in my own skin and open to people, regardless of their gender or popularity or any other label, as a result.
Gillian Zinser
#28. Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.
Raheel Farooq
#29. Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#30. Ravenwood ran a hand through his wavy chestnut hair, upsetting the careful work of his valet.
Or not. Given the popularity of the "frightened owl" hairstyle today, Amelia couldn't fathom much effort being involved at all.
Erica Ridley
#31. Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.
David Harsanyi
#32. In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
Shirley Temple
#33. There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity ...
Jasper Fforde
#34. Everybody else possessed the key to popularity and happiness, and his clumsy attempts to find his own key always ended with other children looking at him funny, or calling him names.
Belinda Bauer
#35. Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
Stephen Covey
#36. There's not even real *popularity* at my school."
"That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.
John Green
#37. To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.
Jon Landau
#38. Coming from money in a place like this gives you automatic popularity and acceptance if you care about those kinds of things, but I don't.
It's phony.
Nothing genuine can ever be cultivated under those circumstances, and I'm fine with this.
Jason Myers
#39. Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
Nathan Myhrvold
#40. Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.
Charlton Heston
#41. Do not be a "go along, get along" person when it comes to the suffering of others. Integrity is not a popularity contest. Stand for love!
Bryant McGill
#42. It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.
Andrea Hirata
#43. I think what I regret is that I would rather do something like that when I was a more established actress and I really had proven myself first. Now, people are still unsure whether I can act or not. I just don't want to be one of those girls who are playing off the show's popularity.
Megan Fox
#44. The passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How can you have faith in Me when you receive honour from one another and do not seek for the honour that comes from the only God?' (cf. Jn. 5:44).
Gregory Palamas
#45. No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
Bruce Springsteen
#46. Nothing to learning for I have none; nothing to youth for I was old when I began; nothing to popularity for I was hated all round. ... This is the modest truth and my friends at Rome call me more god than man.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#47. I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter
#48. When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney
#49. Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
Tom Selleck
#50. That those supports may be shaken, and collapse, for the popularity of evil men is as fickle as the men themselves.
Pliny The Younger
#51. Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here.
Madonna Ciccone
#52. When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.
Gene Ween
#53. The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues.
Chuck Todd
#54. Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.
Nathan Eldon Tanner
#55. Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.
Connie Willis
#56. Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley
#57. Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
Donald Fagen
#58. When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
Dee Dee Ramone
#60. I've come to realize that worldly light brings more popularity in someone's life then spiritual light.
Hyrum A Yeakley
#61. Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
Bruce Beresford
#62. We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup's 'Q & A'. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers.
Ashwin Sanghi
#63. had grown tonight, since Gordy and Crystal both brought friends. Joan was ecstatic at the popularity their little
Virginia Smith
#64. If it is true that rock stars weather into institutions, then Dylan has started now to resemble the Church of England: the dwindling popularity of his product cannot diminish the intensity of the arguments among his congregation.
Robert Sandall
#65. Nerds always say they don't give a shit about popularity; but - not having friends sucks. I never liked quote unquote cool kids, personally - I thought they were all dumb little shits.
John Green
#66. I'm afraid the popularity of the domestic cat would drop very quickly if little kitty could roar its displeasure.
Yann Martel
#67. If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#68. I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.
Tim Vine
#69. The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
Jamie Wyeth
#70. We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
Adam Weishaupt
#71. I felt vigorous and cheered by borrowed popularity.
Tracy Kidder
#72. Misery loves company, which explains my sudden popularity. - T-SHIRT
Darynda Jones
#73. The spotlight never fixes our insecurities. It only magnifies what we thought popularity would cover up.
Lysa TerKeurst
#74. The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.
Bill Maher
#75. To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
#77. The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors in the battle for popularity at a given moment, but my own understanding of the American tradition in which I was brought up.
Jane Jacobs
#78. What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
David Brin
#79. Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.
L. Neil Smith
#80. Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.
Leo Howard
#81. That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare. You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.
Lionel Shriver
#82. Honestly, I think there's a cycle to the popularity of fantasy and fairytales that usually coincides with times of unrest or hardship in our own world. By retelling these legends or immersing ourselves in fantasy realms, we can safely explore the very real, very day-to-day darkness of our own lives.
Sarah J. Maas
#83. If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?
Jerry Seinfeld
#84. My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.
Dale Carnegie
#85. If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
Bobby Knight
#86. When a president's popularity grows, the he is doing wrong things.
Debasish Mridha
#87. A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.
Susan Sontag
#88. Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.
Art Garfunkel
#89. You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image.
LeCrae
#90. I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.
Woody Hayes
#91. I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
Kamala Harris
#92. I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.
Lorde
#93. As the word 'tolerance' grows in popularity, tolerance for pure, unadulterated Christian doctrine appears to be shrinking.
Monica Johnson
#94. We know where a song's popularity starts, and we can watch it spread," Titus told me. Take, for example, Lorde, the out-of-nowhere sensation of 2013. Shazam's engineers can rewind time to trace the international contagion of her first single, "Royals,
Anonymous
#95. Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.
Oleta Adams
#96. Concerning the popularity of vampire books:
I don't get it. I think people should read about bloody, heart-singing, mind-searing spirituality.
Live your heart's song, not its drippings.
Sandy Nathan
#97. If you're a publisher and you forbid deep linking into your site, or have a paid wall or registration requirement, then you're making it hard to 'point to' your content. When no one points to your content, your content is harder to find because search uses links as a proxy for popularity.
John Battelle
#98. I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.
Corey Hart
#99. I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Bette Midler
#100. I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.
Gabriel Iglesias
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