Popularity Quotes

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

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 of the few.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

Art has never been a popularity contest.