It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas Adams

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
Cleveland Abbe

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
Conan O'Brien

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Woodrow Wilson

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
Gore Vidal

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Arnold H. Glasow

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
Dee Hock

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Gerry Adams

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
Gene Simmons

I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular.
Ritchie Blackmore

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
Thomas Babington

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
Tina Fey

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Elizabeth II

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill