Popularity Quotes

370 quotes by 330 authors

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody. — Aristotle
It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies. — Publilius Syrus
He that has many friends, has no friends. — Aesop
One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human… — Charles Horton Cooley
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last… — David Mamet
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited… — Wendell Phillips
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or… — Thomas B. Macaulay
In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short. — Shirley Temple
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree. — Julia Leigh
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… — Dee Dee Ramone
Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution. — Vance Havner
It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity. — Criss Jami
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by… — A. N. Wilson
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
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… — Chuck D
Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process. — Robert Bringhurst
Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver.… — Gary Allan
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest. — William Devane
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living. — Ethel Merman
I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that… — Kenny G

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