#popularity

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work. ↗

— Tim Dorsey

#growing-up #popularity-tim-dorsey #family

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson II

#popularity #freedom

To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap. ↗

— Jennifer Ziegler

#popularity #unpopularity #funny

One of the eternal verities of human life is that if you make the same choices as other people, they will think you are intelligent. ↗

— George Hammond

#popularity #intelligence

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#nonconformity #popularity #soul #life

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#fame-and-fortune #life-skills #popularity #talent #art

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#insignificance #unpopularity #vanity #vanity

I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice. ↗

— Tom Upton

#young-adult #young-adult

Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!' ↗

— Gary Allan

#anytime #around #big #contest #feel

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. ↗

— Fred Allen

#actor #boy #expectancy #fleeting #gas