So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar...

You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was....

Sense isn’t democratic. A senseless opinion that’s advocated by ‘the majority’ is still senseless.

M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: “He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much that he had left his heart in other people’s books, and all that...

High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other’s penises off and throw...

(John) Adams acknowledged that he had made himself obnoxious to many of his colleagues, who regarded him as a one-man bonfire of the vanities. This never troubled Adams, who in his more contrarian moods claimed...

Facebook page likes don’t read books.

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.

There is usually a moment in the life of a new president when he begins to see himself not as an aspirant desperate to win but as a statesman above the squalor and sweat of...

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don’t you think?

You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush...

he said. ”But I really didn’t come here to win a popularity contest. I came here to do what I thought was right.

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...