Quotes About Popularity

Most people go along with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it.

You don't count. You're not what they're looking for. You're not on TV.

We have a tendency in this country to fall in love with noted personalities, like the drunks who throw their arms around a stranger's neck, only to push him away again after a while, for equally obscure reasons.

there was a sudden burst in their popularity.

Walt Disney became very rich by making millions of people happy. And Henry Ford became very rich by making the automobile affordable for the working class.

their books do not sell as well as mine do.

Billy the Kid shooting all those people over in New Mexico has made gunfighting real popular with the public.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be us.

I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.

The seniors look my way before they leave. One girl, not the cheerleader, nods her head, and says, Way to go. I hope you're OK. With hours left in the school year, I have suddenly become popular. Thanks to the big mouths on the lacrosse team, everybody knew what happened before sundown. Mom took me to the hospital to stitch up the cut on my hand. When we got home, there was a message on the machine from Rachel. She wants me to call her.

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

He that has many friends, has no friends.

Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Parker, made a deliberate attempt to restrict the number of appearances and records the King made. As a result, every time Elvis appeared, it was an event of enormous impact. (Elvis himself contributed to this strategy by overdosing early and severely dampening his future appearances. Likewise Marilyn Monroe and James Dean.)