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Quotes About Popularity

Fame is really great in a lot of ways, you know? People are a lot nicer to you. Like, the more famous you are, the more free presents you get. And invitations to really amazing things.
~ Tama Janowitz
I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.
~ George Clooney
All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.
~ Walter Mosley
If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.
~ Mike Murdock
My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.
~ Dale Carnegie
In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.
~ Nicole Hollander
Everything that is popular is wrong.
~ Oscar Wilde
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.
~ Charlton Heston
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.
~ Susan Sontag
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
~ Tom Selleck
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
~ Michael Winner
Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
~ Howard Cosell
In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.
~ Katie White
I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.
~ Aubrey O'Day
Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
~ Abraham Cowley
We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.
~ Mark Hoppus
I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.
~ Rick Perry
I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.
~ Sandra Cisneros
I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
~ Wayne Coyne
Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't believe you've arrived until you get a stalker.
~ Noel Gallagher
Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
~ Alexandra Kosteniuk