Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Robinson

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Jeffrey Archer

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

Ernst Engel

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

Gregory Maguire

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

Iggy Pop

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

Frederik Pohl

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

George R. R. Martin

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

Faith Popcorn

Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.

Faith Popcorn

Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.

Progressively, the skill set of the population is growing.

Our development of the countryside should support an agricultural population and an agricultural economy.

There's a tremendous statement there about the universality of man. It's who the pope is.

Dave Roberts

It's a little different circumstances, but you know what? When you pop the champagne, you pop the champagne. And this is just the beginning.

Matt Morris

It's all about popping the champagne. This was our second time doing it. Hopefully, there are two to go.

For a population of 100,000 it is sufficient to survey 600 people.

There was some popping out there on defense. That's the first time that's really come through.

You never know where a veteran is going to pop up. You don't recognize a veteran on the street. They don't wear it on their sleeve.

Ernst Mayr

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

Kristin Hersh

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Kate Bush

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

Ian Lowe

The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

Jerry Brown

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

I can be so creative, ... There's a shell I can work with. ... I can pop out a wall.

Howard Cosell

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

Isaac Asimov

The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (±75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Noam Chomsky

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Noam Chomsky

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

Margaret Thatcher

I will not change just to court popularity.

Michael Jackson

I don't like pop music.

Nicki Minaj

Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population

Mark Twain

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

Matt Groening

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.