Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

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.

(Motherland's policies) are very, very popular with the Russian people.

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!

Lorde

I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Lykke Li

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

If I recall correctly, there were probably 20 of us. I think the school population was 200 or 300.

I can't even get to my (e-mail) because there's spam popping up all over the place.

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Bono

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Harrison Ford

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dino De Laurentiis

The pope dies, you get another pope.

Danny Boyle

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

Andy Warhol

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

He wants to place our rights up for a popular vote on the ballot.

He was battling. He was throwing strikes and he had a lot of pop on his fastball. He was locating it really well.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

There are subdivisions popping up all over the place.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

I thought that one was a pop up.