it’s all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.

Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity.

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.

Normal….What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.So what if the majority became what we see as wierd now?Would our normal, become our new wierd?

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. “The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye,”...

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn’t try to court publicity.

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one’s life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling....

So you want to be famous? You want to inspire large groups of people? You want to be recognized and appreciated by thousands or even millions? Stop trying to do it by speaking to the...

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I’d rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

Some people were simply created with the right genes and the proper social skills, I figured. They ended up at a lunch table with a group of good-looking individuals, like them, who did what all...

Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core..

Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

We’re thrilled that the popularity of Mac OS X opens doors for developers to create innovative solutions across a broad range of markets. As the use of digital media grows rapidly, there’s a strong demand...

Pizza tastes better than broccoli and opinion tastes better than news.

[When asked about his thoughts on gods]I think it’s like a movie that was way too popular. It’s a story that’s been told too many times and just doesn’t mean anything. Man lived on the...

He’s a hot item in California, and his popularity is really growing.

I think (hockey’s popularity is) only going to get better when high school hockey begins being played in the market.

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn’t.

There is no returning to the masses – once your forays into theory have borne you far enough away from them that you can perceive them and the benefits of being among them. the only...

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

I would jump down Etna for any public good – but I hate a mawkish popularity.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity...

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.

Everyone was going crazy, like they’d just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.

There is a segment of the consumer population that wants the convenience of transferring and printing images directly from the camera, without the cable, and it eventually will gain popularity. But first they have to...

In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn’t skyrocketed in popularity.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]

He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him…

Constance: Tell me, what happened to William’s little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.Mary Maceachran: Elsie? — She’s gone.Constance: Oh, it’s a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to...

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.

When I was a teen, I liked to hang out around popular girls, I thought they had some magic, secrets that only they knew and I wanted to learn it… Though pretty soon I realized…...

There’s money to be made with a name like Cash. I should print myself into popularity.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.

Too many leaders value their popularity, protecting it at all cost, degrading their credibility.

Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.

If I owned a retail store, I’d keep my shelves empty, so it appeared my product was so popular it was always sold out. Of course, I’d make no sales because I’d have no product...

Roo: What’s your definition of popularity?Hutch: I used to think people were popular because they were good-looking, or nice, or funny, or good at sports. Roo: Aren’t they?Hutch: I’d think, if I could just be...

I am not superior than anybody, don’t say i am, else i won’t defend you when you get caught.

I represent the public, not public opinion.

Its like a sort of internet Ren Fair. Its like Dungeons & Dragons but for cool people who have got friends.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.