Gaining Popularity

Famous quotes containing the words gaining and/or popularity:

    “Remember stories you read when a boy
    The shipwrecked sailor gaining safety by
    His knife, treetrunk, and lianas for now
    You must escape, or perish saying no.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of “spirit” over matter.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)