Quotes: Popularity

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

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Magic Realism is not new. The label’s new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it’s been around as long as literature has been around.

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

I don’t care whether people like me or dislike me. I’m not on earth to win a popularity contest. I’m here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

I don’t know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching – ’cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

I wouldn’t overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it’s not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.