Popularity Quotes - Page 14

• The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

  Max Beerbohm

  Balance, Modesty, Conceit

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• Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

  Zadie Smith

  Girl, Nerd, Get Money

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• 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

  Bumps, Levels, Fans

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• Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

  Martha Stewart

  Experts, Kind, Bloggers

  "Well, Martha, Most Bloggers Really ARE Experts" by Marci Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2013.

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• When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Love, Satisfaction, Becoming

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1940). “Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry: The First William Alanson White Memorial Lectures”

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• What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

  Susan Orlean

  Ideas, Use, Juniors

  "Miss Popularity" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2011.

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• If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Want, Chef, Conventions

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• Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Successful, Effectiveness, Suffering

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• Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

  Andrea Bocelli

  People, Curiosity, Noses

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• I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Father, Believe

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• 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.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Thinking, Government

  Frank Herbert (2017). “The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction”, p.107, Tor Science Fiction

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• The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

  David Hume

  Peace, War, Philosophical

  Adam Ferguson, David Hume, David R. Raynor (1982). “Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

  Jon Landau

  People, Maintaining, Professionalism

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• 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

  Musical Ability, Culture, Links

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• My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Machines, Richness, Loses

  "Wynton Marsalis Toots His Own Horn". Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, www.ebony.com. October 8, 2013.

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

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Halloween, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.45, OUP Oxford

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• In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Facts, Masculine, Phenomenon

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.159, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

  Clarence Thomas

  Friends, Winning, Thinking

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• It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

  Jesse Ventura

  Issues, Today, Election

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• 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

  Stars, Mean, Rocks

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• 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

  History, Psychology, Matter

  "Illness As Metaphor" by Susan Sontag, ch. 7 (pp. 55-56), 1978.

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• Popularity means people think they know you.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

  John Bytheway

  Yearbook, Forever, Ends

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• Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Firefly, Trying, Fickle

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Keys To The Repository: Blue Bloods”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't our lives be like that? It's a box left unopened, and its avoidance explains the continued popularity of vampire epics and martial-arts extravaganzas.

  David Sedaris

  Falling In Love, Art, Epic

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