#popular

When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them. ↗

— John Badham

#displayed #done #eric #five #germans

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

#clings #element #exaggeration #great #great virtues

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it. ↗

— David Bailey

#i #look #people #popular #really

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

#cry #fact #hitherto #i #indeed

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

#back #body #called #comic #comic strip

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. ↗

— David Attenborough

#birds #feed #group #inhabit #kingdom

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

#consumed #dish #entertainment #food #forgotten

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#art #art form #attendance #ever #form

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now. ↗

— Brad Bird

#culture #films #going #i #now

I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#am #i #i am #know #popular