Popularity Quotes

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

~ Dan Pearce

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

~ Tom Upton

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 good-looking individuals managed: making the rest of us feel both envious of them and sad for ourselves, intentional or not. They had activities outside of school and followers online—people of social necessity who sat at home on Friday nights and 'liked' popular posts in hopes that they, too, might one day be as attractive and personable.

~ Bryant A. Loney

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.

~ Nicole Williams

Life is not a popularity contest.

~ A.d. Posey

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

~ Raheel Farooq

The only time she's come close to being known was when she accidentally came out as bisexual during sophomore English class while talking about her favorite poem.

~ C.b. Lee

Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal.

~ Derek Thompson

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.

~ Alan Moore

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ H.w. Brands

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

~ H.w. Brands

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.

~ Amit Kalantri

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I am not superior than anybody, don't say i am, else i won't defend you when you get caught.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

~ John Green

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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 society after the Crimean War and here it immediately received the status of full citizenship and ever since has enjoyed widespread popularity.

~ Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevskiĭ

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

~ Bill Bryson

Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

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 a name that would sound well and serve as a catchword, since I had already at that time no doubt about the importance and the future popularity of the new field.

~ Casimir Funk

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.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him…

~ Mrs. Oliphant

That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn’t know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think about it anymore.

~ Dana Michelle Burnett

Real men do not work for fame. That is what I think. Popularity is just a piece of crap. I prefer a private life.

~ Aishah Madadiy

We aren't just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It's funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

~ Larry Eskridge

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.

~ Winston S. Churchill

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

~ Victoria Kahler

Most consumers are simultaneously neophilic, curious to discover new things, and deeply neophobic, afraid of anything that is too new. The best hit makers are gifted at creating moments of meaning by marrying new and old, anxiety and understanding. They are architects of familiar surprises.

~ Derek Thompson

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

~ Ken Follett

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A sunshine can bring opportunities for a person's life and you should never be disappointed if it shines on you because if you disregard it, you will miss the moment of great luck.

~ Saaif Alam