Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Robert Fitzgerald

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.

Samantha Bond

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Jonathan Swift

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.

I want to tell you something about accountability: It's hard. It hurts. If you're going to do the right thing, it's not always going to be the popular thing.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Shawn Wayans

To us, it's just kind of starting to tap into our audience, and we're excited. We need to be part of that transition, because it is pop culture.

It's just not as popular as is used to be.

It's the most popular place for student activities.

Dave Roberts

It's a little different circumstances, but you know what? When you pop the champagne, you pop the champagne. And this is just the beginning.

Cleo Moore

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

Robert Harris

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

Rachel Platten

I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.

John Jones

It wouldn't have taken much to just pop over, would it?

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

We really don't want it to pop over that ridge top.

Even in rehearsals, I didn't realize it would be as popular as it proved. After I read it, I said: 'It's brilliant, but it's quite esoteric.' We scheduled 70 or 80 performances.

David Bennett

We were doing things tonight they teach you not to do in Pop Warner.

This was the most, but I'm kind of used to it by now. I just tried to pop back up.

We shut them down and another one pops up.

Annalee Newitz

Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Ang Lee

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

Anne Carson

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.