Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Jones

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

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.

We shut them down and another one pops up.

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.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Ron Perlman

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

Stewart Udall

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

Michael Moore

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Michel Foucault

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Sam Martin

He was a very popular young man. The students are taking it hard.

I was praying that it would go out. For a while I thought it was just going to be a big pop up.

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Rachel Nichols

She does pop in here quite often and we never know when she's coming,

Ernst Engel

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

He's pretty talented. He's got a lot of pop in that leg.

I didn't know if I got it. I thought it was a pop fly, but it carried.

Jack London

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Ernst Mayr

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

Gregory Maguire

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

Iggy Pop

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

Ian Lowe

The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

Isaac Asimov

The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (±75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity.

Jerry Brown

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

I can be so creative, ... There's a shell I can work with. ... I can pop out a wall.

Vance Havner

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

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.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.