#popularity

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. ↗

— William Penn

#benefit #many #popularity #real #snares

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#cases #considered #few #i #i think

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. ↗

— Orson Welles

#donald #donald duck #duck #election #politicians

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#critics #might #our #popularity #some

I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues. ↗

— Tim Vine

#getting #i #kind #like #means

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. ↗

— George Savile

#men #moment #only #popularity #sought

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#answer #barbarity #cruelty #great #howl

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#fame #humor #kaling #mindy #murder

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#fantasy-genre #ideas #inspiration #popularity #self-deprication

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#dreams #expected #i #i write #just