Popularity Quotes - Page 15

• Popularity can be a real headache.

  Michele Jaffe

  Real, Headache

  Michele Jaffe (2010). “Rosebush”, p.237, Penguin

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• 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

  Real, School, People

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• 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 Nouwen

  Letting Go, Judging, Identity

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• Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Children, Identity

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• Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Names, Ugly, Publicity

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

  Robert Rankin

  Facts, Drink, Well Known

  Robert Rankin (2011). “The Gollancz eBook Collection (eBook): Eight Fantastic Novels by Robert Rankin”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Airports, Typewriters

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead.

  Bill Watterson

  Grieving, Years, People

  "Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back with no regrets". Interview with John Campanelli, www.cleveland.com. February 1, 2010.

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• When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

  Arabella Weir

  Class, Goal, Priorities

  "Once Upon A Life: Arabella Weir" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

  George Will

  Law, Democracy, Majority

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• The THE TABLOIDS are always going to be a war for POPULARITY in the CELEB world.

  Meg Cabot

  War, World, Tabloids

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• The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

  Ayn Rand

  Support, Political, Minorities

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.190, Penguin

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• It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

  John Bytheway

  Yearbook, Forever, Lasts

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• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Vapor, Reputation

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Simplicity

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Real, Knowing

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.78, Penguin UK

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• One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure. Which of us hasn't been annoyed when a band, writer, artist or television series that had been a minority interest of ours has suddenly achieved mainstream popularity? When it was at a cult level we moaned at the philistinism of a world that didn't appreciate it, and now that they do appreciate it we're all resentful and dog-in-the-manger about it.

  Stephen Fry

  Dog, Fall, Artist

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.204, The Overlook Press

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• 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

  Years, Shining, Mind

  "Art Garfunkel: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2011.

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• An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Judgment, Obscure, Court

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.167, 谷月社

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• A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Popular Vote, Sovereign, Vote

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Newspapers, Trinity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.152, University of Georgia Press

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• 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

  Criticism, Path, Peers

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• A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in the presence of those who mock and jeer, wins the respect and love of men and women whose opinion is most worthwhile.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Character, Sacrifice

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• 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

  Mean, People, Giving

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• My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

  Dale Carnegie

  Skills, People, Depends

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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