“Fashion is her (Popularity) favourite disciple.”

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.”

“A favourite saying in China—which she had heard on occasion from her own grandmother—was that the threads of life are easy to weave, but difficult to untangle.”

“When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.”

“Into a slumber then I fell,
When fond imagination
Seemed to see, but could not tell
Her feature or her fashion.”

“She's a perfect example of how popular culture and street style now influence the world of fashion. Over the years, Madonna has been one of the most potent style setters of our time. She, just as much as Karl Lagerfeld, makes fashion happen.”

“That your art follows her so far as it can, as the disciple does the master, so that your art is as it were grandchild of God.”

“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?”

“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?”

“If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.”