Public Quotes
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Walter Winchell
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As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
Oscar Wilde
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
Barton Gellman
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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.
Archibald Cox
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Walter Benjamin
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
Garry Trudeau
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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
Jack Dangermond
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What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
Anne Carson
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
Ja Rule
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
Ian Mckellen
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
Lance Morrow
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As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.
Merrick Garland
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
Ian Hacking
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
B. B. King
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It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.
Anthony Robbins
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Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.
Boris Karloff
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
Irene Dunne
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.
Ian Mckellen