P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.”
“Pop, and he was gone. It's impressive, isn't it? How easily these monsters die in the end.”
“Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.”
“Pop art is
the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!”
“Pop art is a way of liking things.”
Source: The Religious Art of Andy Warhol
“Pop art is about liking things.”
“Pop art is for everyone.”
Source: Andy Warhol, Priest:
“Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won't be American; it will be universal.”
Source: Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...
“Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.”
“Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.”
“Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”
“Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.”
“Pop champagne is a good campaign.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.”
“Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.”
“Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.”
Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.”
“Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.”
Source: Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl
“Pop culture is just a rubik's cube of shit stacked on shit. And it's always turning and you can't figure it out. Ever. Unless you're a tiny Asian boy who can do it SO quickly! Where did this metaphore go? In Kim Kardashian's butt!”
“Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.”
“Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.”
“Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us.”
“Pop culture. Nobody does bullshit better than us. Right? China took over manufacturing. And the Middle East has us on fossil fuels. That's just geography and politics. We're a nation of whacko immigrants. Scavengers and con men. We crossed the ocean on faith, stole some land and stone-cold made up a whole country out of nothing but balls and bullshit. Superhero comics got invented by crazy genius Jews who showed up and revamped the refugee experience into a Man of Steel sent from Krypton with a secret identity.”
Source: Bad Idea
“Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.”
“Pop culture was in art
Now, art's in pop culture in me”
“Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.”
“Pop culture, commercials. You only come across a commercial if you're watching a TV all the time. I've never been all that upset. I like hearing the songs. I guess I've never been all that caught up in it.”
“Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.”
“Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.”
“Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.”
“Pop! I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you!”
Source: Death of a Salesman
“Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential”
“Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.”
“Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.”
“Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.”
“Pop is an easy way for evil business people to make a lot of money. But I find myself humming a Christina Aguilera song every once in a while.”
“Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.”
“Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.”
“Pop is not music. Pop is celebrity. Fabricated personas that are all style, no substance. Pop is a celebration of fakeness. Artifice is the only cultural currency left, now that the internet has erased all contextual borders.”
Source: Super Fake Love Song
“Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.”
“Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.”
“Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.”
“Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Pop life Everybody needs a thrill Pop life We all got a space 2 fill Pop life Everybody can't be on top But life it ain't real funky Unless it's got that pop Dig it.”
“Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.”
“Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.”
“Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.”
“Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.”
“Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.”
“Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.”