Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harrison Ford

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Gabrielle Aplin

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

Jim Hightower

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

Mark Twain

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.

Mark Twain

There are many scapegoats for our blunders, but the most popular one is Providence

Barry Gibb

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

Chris Bryant

There is popcorn that I have never imagined.

Too often, the skin creams that are most popular are the ones with the most marketing, not with the most research,

Danny Boyle

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

Seth Shostak

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Baruch Spinoza

Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes

Benny Blanco

Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Text messaging is popular for two reasons: It's mobile, and it's quiet,

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Ezra Taft Benson

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

Harmony Korine

Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

Donald Fagen

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Daniel Quinn

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

Dino De Laurentiis

The pope dies, you get another pope.

Andy Warhol

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

Ang Lee

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

Anne Carson

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Andrew Sullivan

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Ambrose Bierce

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Annalee Newitz

Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

White is very popular in Italy, and the U.S. wore it in '56.

Annalee Newitz

When it comes to the population explosion, there are two questions on the table. One, is our population growth going to kill us all? And two, is there any ethical way to prevent that from happening?

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!