Quotes About Popularity

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.

The people far prefer a leader who appears great, to one who is.

Everyone's calling 'emselves that these days," muttered Rikke. "I hear even babies are doing it.

The people far prefer a leader who appears great, Bialoveld wrote, to one who is.

Prison didn't frighten him especially. He had a lot of fans in there.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Popularity is about wanting people to like you, but happiness is about liking yourself.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

That's life when you're on the D-list.

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

David Bowie: By 1985, I was something I never wanted to be: I was a well-accepted artist. I had started appealing to people who bought Phil Collins records. I suddenly didn't know my audience and, worse, I didn't care about them. I always looked OK in clothes – I was kind of a target for designers, always. They sort of made a beeline for me and tried to get me to wear their things. But I guess it was up to me to choose which ones I would wear.