Popularity Quotes

370 quotes by 326 authors

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. — Henri Nouwen
What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from… — Susan Orlean
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one? — Susan Orlean
You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to… — Donny Osmond
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind… — Camille Paglia
My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing.… — Jane Pauley
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. — William Penn
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one… — Edgar Allan Poe
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. — Marco Rubio
Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls. — Zadie Smith
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… — Bruce Springsteen
Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that. — Martha Stewart
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… — Harry Stack Sullivan
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… — Clarence Thomas
In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute. — Ashley Tisdale
A President cannot always be popular. — Harry S. Truman
It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues. — Jesse Ventura
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… — Tim Vine

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