Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

Edward Zwick

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Baruch Spinoza

Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes

Benny Blanco

Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.

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

Lykke Li

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

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,

If I recall correctly, there were probably 20 of us. I think the school population was 200 or 300.

Jeff Foxworthy

There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.

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.

George R. R. Martin

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

Frederik Pohl

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Greg Gutfeld

The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?

Gerry Beckley

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

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.

(Motherland's policies) are very, very popular with the Russian people.

Jazz: it's got folk, it's got funk, it's got various international influences...it's also got some pop and rock elements.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Jane Goodall

Some often refer to the population as 150,000.

Text messaging is popular for two reasons: It's mobile, and it's quiet,

I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me.

White is very popular in Italy, and the U.S. wore it in '56.

Annalee Newitz

When it comes to the population explosion, there are two questions on the table. One, is our population growth going to kill us all? And two, is there any ethical way to prevent that from happening?

Ernst Mayr

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

Gerard Way

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

Havelock Ellis

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Gregory Maguire

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