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

My clothes are very popular in Japan.
Vivienne Westwood

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.
John Walters

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

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot

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

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

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
Waylon Jennings

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

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
Jackie Collins

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
Rudy Giuliani

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

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

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

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.
Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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

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