What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.
Howard Cosell

My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!
Calvin Klein

My clothes are very popular in Japan.
Vivienne Westwood

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
Corazon Aquino

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.
Enya

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
Karl Kraus

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
Mahmoud Abbas

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.
Elliott Smith

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
Charles Babbage

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. Milne

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
Stephen Sondheim

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
Stephen Sondheim

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.
Howard Dean

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James D. Watson

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.
Giorgio Armani

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.
Eddie Van Halen

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
Ben Affleck