All Quotes

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.
‐‐ John James Audubon

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
‐‐ John Chrysostom

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
‐‐ Sydney Madwed

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
‐‐ Georg Brandes

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.
‐‐ Alan Huffman

Poor men's reasons are not heard.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
‐‐ Cornel West

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
‐‐ Jose Mujica

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
‐‐ Charles Barkley

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
‐‐ Jack Paar

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
‐‐ Angela Davis

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.
‐‐ Daymond John

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.
‐‐ James Altucher

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.
‐‐ Ken Auletta

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
‐‐ Anne Campbell

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
‐‐ Henry George

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
‐‐ Leonard Baskin

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
‐‐ Roy Lichtenstein

Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.
‐‐ Dave Sitek

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
‐‐ Ravi Shankar

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.
‐‐ Anwar Robinson

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.
‐‐ Sir Mix-a-Lot

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

Pop culture is like our subconscious.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
‐‐ Trevor Dunn

Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
‐‐ Natasha Leggero

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.
‐‐ Branford Marsalis

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
‐‐ Jackie Robinson

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
‐‐ Taylor Momsen

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.
‐‐ Charlie Simpson

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!
‐‐ Gregg Allman

Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.
‐‐ Peter York

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
‐‐ Siobhan Fahey

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
‐‐ Todd Haynes

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
‐‐ Peter Tork