Popular Quotes

We are not here to be popular, we are here to be free.

I’ve never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school – I’ve always done my own thing.

I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.

Art should never try to be popular.

Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

Mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.