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Quotes About Popularity

The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting.
~ Rick Smolan
Are there a million people out there who would love a Joey Cook album? I think there probably are.
~ Scott Borchetta
Believe it or not, a lot of people watch social media. I have 1.5 million people on Instagram, 2.5 million people on Twitter: that is how many people are watching whatever I do.
~ The Miz
Never in a million years did I think 'Game of Thrones' was going to take off like it did.
~ Emilia Clarke
People will send me pictures of T-shirts with my face on it and it's nothing that I ever would've imagined in a million years as a kid.
~ Shannon Purser
But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!
~ Willie Nelson
If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
~ Warren Ellis
What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly.
~ Megan Fox
The love for the brand is immense. It gets a lot of affection from millions and millions of people.
~ Rajeev Suri
I still think it's mind-blowing when famous people know who I am.
~ Jayson Tatum
What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.
~ Mike Posner
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.
~ Elayne Boosler
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
~ Edward Tufte
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
~ Nate Silver
I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.
~ Tony Wilson
I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one.
~ Alfred Enoch
I don't want people to think they have to like me because I'm on TV every other minute.
~ Katy B
Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.
~ Ken Stott
Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong!
~ Jane Green
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.
~ Thomas Hardy
She is one of those people who are known, as one may say, by subscription: everybody knows a little, till she is astonishingly well known altogether; but nobody knows her entirely.  She
~ Thomas Hardy
So many people make a name now-a-days, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.
~ Thomas Hardy
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan—a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society; and the possibility of the favour gained being transitory had reference only to the future. He
~ Thomas Hardy
Even the piquant can forfeit popularity if tied to something intellectual.
~ Thomas Mann