Quotes About Popularity

Midge Ure: In Slik, there were just girls in the audience. In Ultravox, the boys started to come too, in mackintoshes and moustaches. There were always lots of men at Ultravox concerts.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you're popular enough.

If you have friends who actually like you, you're popular enough.

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics ' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

Wealth maketh many friends.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!

His fame was noised throughout all the country.

DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.

A girl's social networking profile is a persona she constructs, a photoshopped billboard on the information superhighway. It also offers a salve for the anxiety so many girls feel about relationships, providing the answers to burning social questions like, What do other people think of me? Do people like me? Am I normal? Am I popular? Am I cool?

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.

I think, whenever you're in the public eye, you're never going to be loved by everybody.

I'm in the public eye. I'm a celebrity and a football player.

Even though I was away from the public eye, I was in the public memory.

As an artist, you're used to being in the public eye.

The scary thing is how quickly everyone's star fades. Therefore, to be a voice, you need to do television. You need to stay in the public eye for the public to care about you, to be a big enough voice to help where it is needed.

When you are a public figure you will get love and hate both.