#pop

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#diminished #flying #i #popularity #think

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#barbarians #distributes #into #itself #just

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. ↗

— David Attenborough

#decisions #electorate #environment #get #history

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

— Margaret Atwood

#does #dream #examine #itself #popular

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#divine #earthly #element #medieval #notably

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#course #groupies #i #idol #love

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

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#change #cultural #driven #exclusive #great