All Quotes

Popular applause veers with the wind.
‐‐ John Bright

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

Popular culture is filled with girls.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
‐‐ Victor Davis Hanson

Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.
‐‐ James Rosenquist

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
‐‐ James Wolcott

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
‐‐ Stanley Crouch

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
‐‐ Nate Mendel

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
‐‐ Robert Hughes

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.
‐‐ Alexandra Robbins

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
‐‐ L.A. Reid

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.
‐‐ Rickie Lee Jones

Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

Popular music sucks so bad right now.
‐‐ Kristin Hersh

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
‐‐ Alex Ebert

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
‐‐ Donald Fagen

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
‐‐ John Tyler

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
‐‐ George Savile

Popularity is totally overrated.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.
‐‐ Robert Bringhurst

Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
‐‐ Orson Welles

Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.
‐‐ Tony Judt

Populated by the usual detritus of rabble.ca contributors, Canadian Peace Alliance retreads and Press TV dingbats, the Syria Solidarity Movement is unambiguously and unashamedly pro-Assad.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.
‐‐ Jerry Costello

Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.
‐‐ Al Gore

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.
‐‐ Ali Babacan

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
‐‐ Thomas Malthus

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
‐‐ Thomas Malthus

Populism is dangerous.
‐‐ Benjamin Netanyahu

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
‐‐ Jim Hightower

Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland's problems.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.
‐‐ Jim Hightower

'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the action, or as background, or as atmosphere; even when it's front and center, it isn't crucial.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Pork is my friend.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
‐‐ Fergus Henderson

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.
‐‐ Carroll Shelby