#popular

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#another #calvin #calvin and hobbes #dead #five

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#sarcasm #vampires #sarcasm

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

— Tom Upton

#young-adult #young-adult

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#between #conceit #delicate #delicate balance #modesty

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#faces #federal #federal reserve #lot #many

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#america #anybody #audience #because #being

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#confirmed #control #democratic #effort #electoral

There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four. ↗

— Chester Brown

#bit #consensus #debate #did #doing

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#i think #iran #over #period #popular

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#am #approach #best #better #blatant