'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.
In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.
There can be crowd issues everywhere in cycling. But it's a good thing for cycling that it's so accessible for spectators. That's why it's so popular - because fans can get close to the road and the race. But you also have to be aware of the dangers.
I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.
The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.
I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.
I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.
Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.
