Top 1200 Popular Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.
I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.
Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
I know I'm not popular with all the people. Remember, I am 'cruel' or a 'pharaoh.' That's all right. In politics, you get called all types of names.
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
One of the most popular MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismatic, larger-than-life personality that transcended the sport.
Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater.
It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized global pop.
I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.
The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
I think, and I don't know if it's because of 'Searching for Sugar Man,' but South Africans seem to not have to go with what's popular but what they like, and that's refreshing.
Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.
I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.
As soon as you think, 'Pirates are really popular right now with kids so I'm going to write a pirate movie'... that's when you're dead.
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally honest.
The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.
I think nowadays we're often sidetracked by what somebody got popular doing with all due respect to what they do, but it should be about the talent.
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.
Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
We once turned to popular culture because it produced fantasy objects; now, we are asked to 'identify with' the fantasising subject itself.
The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.
Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.
Contrary to far too popular a belief, style, fashion, and fabulousness are not synonymous with stank, haughty, and self-aggrandizing.
We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.
The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.
It's not really a popular consensus to sing Sinatra - which I love! And I just think it's so cool that he disliked rock n' roll so much.
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.
For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.
Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’
A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.
Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
Biarritz is one of the most popular holiday destinations in France and it tops the list for coastal resorts along the French Atlantic.
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.
Andre Agassi is one of the world's most popular and admired figures. He has lived an extraordinary life, and he has a great story to tell.
It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by the people around you.
You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.
My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.
Some conservatives say that whether it's popular or unpopular, imposing strict limits on immigration is the right thing to do, and it must be defended.
