Popular Quotes

I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college.

I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Sometimes you need a little courage too just to buck popular opinion.

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

Now some they do and some they don't And some you just can't tell And some they will and some they won't With some it's just as well.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief.

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.