Top 1200 Really Popular Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

I get recognised, but Im not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

My favorite Marvel villain is Doctor Doom from Fantastic Four. For DC, I think it's a popular choice, but it's the Joker.

Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

Being from California, avocado toast is very popular in our house. We have it almost every morning.

My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.

Frankly, TV stars are not that popular. In fact, I don't have even have a million followers on any of social media accounts.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church...so long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. Lukewarm people tend to choose what is popular over what is right. Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want to be saved from the penalty of their sin. Lukewarm people rarely share their faith with their neighbors, coworkers, or friends. Lukewarm people are thankful for their luxuries and comforts, and rarely consider trying to give as much as possible to the poor.

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

In my opinion, Jimmie Johnson should be our most popular guy because he's won seven championships.

As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

'Tenali Rama' is one of the most popular shows on Indian Television and it feels great working in the show.

At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular.

Pop culture is a huge strategy for WWE: our storylines are reflective of what's happening in the world and what's popular.

I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president - I even dated the homecoming queen.

'Bigg Boss' is such a popular show that it will help me increase my national and international reach.

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

George Dunne stuck his neck out for me in the '70s, when it wasn't a very popular thing to do.

You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

If you are posting your music on YouTube, maybe start with a popular cover done in a unique way.

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.

There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.

I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school yearbook it is in its look, so much so that Hunter Publishing had the art director, David Kaestle, and I come for years to their annual convention and do a little talk on how not to do a yearbook.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

I don't think I am even that popular. In fact, people must be wondering who the hell Nia Sharma is!

Frank Sinatra was a popular star, but he was always so sweet and friendly to me that I was excited just to be next to him.

The only way to stop the erosion in network television is to come up with shows that are very popular.

Especially when you're a leader, you have to do the things that aren't the popular choice. But that's fine, you have to be able to make those decisions, without a doubt.

Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.