Popularity Quotes - Page 14

• If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

  Francis Quarles

  Names, Oil, Lamps

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• I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc. These are impossible demands, however, and they can never be satisfied. Letting finite others define our worth is a horrible way to live. Only the Infinite Other [God] has the authority to do this.

  Jon Foreman

  Thinking, Albums, Way To Live

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Numbers, Astrology, People

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• One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.

  Claud Cockburn

  Philosophical, Speaks Out, Wind

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.

  Mimi Pond

  People, Important, Might

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• Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve to convey to others our musical expressions. Words will often pave the way for the more subtle operations of music, and unlock the treasures which sound alone can rifle, and hence the eternal popularity of song.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Song, Expression, Musical

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1872). “Music and Morals”, p.246

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• it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

  Marie Antoinette

  Change, Order, Wish

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• And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?

  Margaret Cho

  Gun, Waiting, Forever

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• People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.

  Sue Grafton

  Country, Passion, Exercise

  Sue Grafton (1988). “"E" is for Evidence”, p.92, Macmillan

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• The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.

  Edward Jenks

  Country, Order, Land

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

  Moby

  Records, Growing, Vinyl

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• Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.

  Ricky Gervais

  Judging, Democracy

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

  Edward Norton

  Cousin, Littles, Prestige

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• First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues. For someone of his stature there is very little for him to notice, ya know? He's so insulated by the people who surround him and by his own popularity. And yet Elvis will still find little things. He'll take the time to be gentle with people.

  Bill Bixby

  Men, Issues, People

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• We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

  Mika Brzezinski

  People, Worry, Brain

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• It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

  Washington Irving

  Rose, Achievement, Trials

  Washington Irving “Life of George Washington”

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• Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

  Christopher Ricks

  Rocks, Genius, Fields

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• The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.

  Chris Stein

  Suicide, Careers, Suffering

  Source: time.com

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• Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

  Trent Reznor

  Clubs, Matter, Feels

  "Trent Reznor on Relating to 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Darkness; Why Grammys are 'Rigged and Cheap'". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

  David Harsanyi

  Mystery, Usefulness

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• Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Coffee, Passing Away, Taste

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• The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Democracy, Energy, May

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.60, University of Chicago Press

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• One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, School, Thinking

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.34

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• All language is a popularity contest.

  Erin McKean

  Language, Contests, Popularity Contest

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• I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Wind, Leader

  "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, www.aljazeera.com. 1997.

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