Quotes of: Popularity-contest Keyword

Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.

Barton Seaver

Ten years after the Boston Tea Party, tea was still far more popular than coffee, which only became the more popular drink in the mid-nineteenth century. Coffee's popularity grew after the duty on imports was abolished in 1832, making it more afforda...

Tom Standage

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

Miller Williams

To be creative is to look Madness in the eye and challenge it to a spitting contest.

River Fairchild

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

Saint Ambrose

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Daniel Webster

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.

Fred Durst

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Warren E. Burger

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

Allison Pearson

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.

Tickle The Public: One Hundred Years Of The Popular Press

I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

Fran Drescher

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

John Bytheway

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

James Fenton

It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture, and finally to popular biography, by which time it will be one of those things about Shakespeare that we thoug...

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

Kevin Lomax: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I know you've spent all morning listening to Mr. Broygo talk; I know you're hungry; what I need to tell you won't take very long at all. I don't like Alexander Cullen. I don't think he's a nice person. I...

The Devil's Advocate

Dumbledore: Well now that we're all settled in and sorted, I'd like to make an announcement. This castle will not only be your home this year but home to some very special guests as well. You see, Hogwarts has been chosen to host a legendary event: T...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

Marc Newson

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Morley Safer

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

John Banville

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

Branford Marsalis