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

I must admit that when I chose the name, ‘vitamine,’ I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose...

Your crown is in the place that has the least crowd

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

Don’t try to make yourself marketable, you’ll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you’ll be at the top.

With the popularity of talk radio and it coming back to Portland, it was great to see him make an impact. He was probably the last person you’d think to see wake up at 6...

If these incidents are repeated and they happen frequently, it could have a more serious effect on the president’s popularity and credibility.

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe...

The saddest thing I have ever experienced is watching a fellow nerd I’ve known forever and befriended, trying to unnerdify themselves. It was painful because that great geeky personality I loved so much is hidden...

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

Darwin’s theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had first to overcome, in Russia its appearance coincided with the awakening of our...

Steve deserves a lot of credit for the popularity of tennis today. He has brought the sport into so many people’s lives. Whether through the launch of the Tennis Channel, or through the thousands of...

So remember those who win the gameLose the love they sought to gainIn debitures of quality and dubious integrityTheir small-town eyes will gape at youIn dull surprise when payment dueExceeds accounts received at seventeen

I began to wonder if what we were doing it evangelical circles had more to do with redeeming ourselves to culture than it did with showing Jesus to a hurting world, a world literally filled...

It’d be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it’s totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

Despite the huge crowd, He speaks to His disciples as though no one else is there.

Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment’s reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo...

Fame comes and goes; knowledge comes and stays. But none of them safeguard us against danger; it’s only the GRACE of God that keeps us in safety!

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don’t know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God’s programming.

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.

You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You’d also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn’t.

I don’t make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they’re right for me, and they’re interesting and challenging.

What we’re seeing is a result of Koizumi’s diminishing popularity — the ‘Koizumi effect’ is wearing off.

A fast car can make women ‘like’ a man; and a man ‘like’ women … fast.

His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from...

Students didn’t much like those who verbally or physically beat the crap out of them. But when researchers began measuring aggression alongside perceived popularity, they found an undeniably strong link. Recent studies conclude that aggressive...

There are 2 kinds of artists, essentially: those who want to make something popular, and those who want to make something dignified. But then there is still that rare hybrid case, and perhaps by that...

They were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn’t funny. I swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all...

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast—I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people—perhaps...

I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

There are two ways to become popular; either by setting the cat amongst the pigeons or by getting the cat out of the midst of the pigeons. The latter is better!

Because it’s kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real....

No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that’s left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can’t help but...

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf… For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in...

A lot of people don’t like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary.

That little core group of students very quickly became a much larger group of students and the success and popularity of the program began to spread.

Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.

Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred...

My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)

He still may not win Miss Congeniality, but he will win a popularity contest,

Stop looking for the biggest crowd, and start looking for the right crowd.

Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.

To the untrained eye, Ben had nothing, at least by the bizarre rules that governed high school. But really, Ben was one of the few who wasn’t pretending, one of the few who was free.

Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

Real popularity is taking the time to love others, reaching out, and never being afraid to be the first one dancing. REMEMBER THE GIRL IN PEARLS.

Do not exchange your dignity for popularity.