#popularity

Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core.. ↗

— Himmilicious

#famous #popularity #love

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

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. ↗

— Elihu Root

#countries #country #declaring #everything #extreme

The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists, the larger reading public likes being entertained. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#genre-snobbery #nonfiction #popularity #reading #design

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself. ↗

— Criss Jami

#being-yourself #celebrities #emotional #facade #fame

If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison. ↗

— Dave Hunt

#popularity #faith

High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and wear them on your first day. If anyone asks how you could afford them say that your father is the president of Ashton Kutcher. When they are like, 'Ashton Kutcher has a president?' answer, 'Yes.' Everyone will be in awe of you and you won't have to go through a lot of pain and cat fights. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#popularity #school #humor

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#life #popularity #life

He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him… ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#regard #respect #respect

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. ↗

— Aristophanes

#falsehood #government #hypocrisy #politics #popularity