Quotes About Popular

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

So the recognition that there were two different sexes turned into the suggestion that there were two different genders. And from there the argument was carefully escorted to what turned out – in the universities at least – to be a wildly popular conclusion: which is that there was in fact no such thing as gender. Gender was not real but merely a 'social construct'.

Secularism refers to the idea, popular for the last few centuries, that it is in fact possible for nations to be religiously neutral.

Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help renew our commitment to improving the lot of the disadvantaged of our own day." - The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster Abbey, on today's 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life.

The fatal problem for the media, the official media, is that it is now in direct competition with social media, the unofficial media. All of the opinions that had been so carefully suppressed by the mainstream have suddenly got an airing and have proved widely popular because the people have been starved of them so long. They always wanted this kind of material, but the media deliberately prevented them from getting it. The West is now having its own Samizdat Moment, and loving it.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

Crystal told me that Charlie Crowgard wrote a song about the fight. It's called 'Teakettle Woman and Broomstick Girl,' and it's so popular with the terra indigene who have heard it, he's going to record it so the rest of us can hear it too.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support.

I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.

Julia used to say, 'Poor Sebastian. It's something chemical in him.' That was the cant phrase of the time, derived from heaven knows what misconception of popular science. 'There's something chemical between them' was used to explain the overmastering hate or love of any two people. It was the old concept of determinism in a new form. I do not believe there was anything chemical in my friend.

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.

It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

My favourite food is definitely paani puri.

From the age of seven, I was destined to be a legend, to be the world's most popular fighter.

One of the most popular MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismatic, larger-than-life personality that transcended the sport.

I was one of the most popular fighters of my era.