Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Margaret Atwood

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

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

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
Franklin Pierce

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

I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.
Cindy Crawford

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fuller

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Maximilien Robespierre

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

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

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Ludwig von Mises

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
Neil Patrick Harris

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
Justin Timberlake

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.
James Van Allen

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
William Lloyd Garrison

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
Hedy Lamarr

Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
Carrot Top

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

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel