Public Quotes
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Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.
Bob Noorda
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It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
Hector Berlioz
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We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
Frank Rizzo
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If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.
Johnny Marr Pretenders
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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
Seth Godin
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We are showing how determined we are to crack down on the distress nuisance calls cause the public.
Alan Johnson
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Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
David Sirota
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The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.
Elijah Wood
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We believe the public will be better served if such warnings are used more sparingly.
Jack Straw
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People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.
Liberace
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But members of the public are bound to be concerned and their concerns can be allayed if they are shown that every effort is being made by the European Union and by member states effectively to coordinate action.
Jack Straw
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On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.
Norman Quentin Cook
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The public never is independently responsive to news.
Edwin Lefevre
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
Angela Davis
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Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.
Conan O'Brien
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
Oscar Wilde
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I guess it raises questions of what they will discuss if they do exclude the public.
Dick Williams
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You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.
Abraham Lincoln
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It took long and patient work to put it into the head of the public that General Jackson was a great man and that he brought honor to America.
Jared Sparks
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Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous disorder and a disastrous cleavage, because the contrariety of the appetites to be satisfied will prevent the satisfaction of any single one. Clearly, then, the effect of the pursuit of private ends under cover of the public good will be worse if there are many with a hand in power than if there is only one
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, we are going to legalize marijuana no matter what happens in ten years, because when 60% of the American public wants something, they're going to get it.
Allen St. Pierre
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The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance they feel toward Indians is somehow 'felt' or transferred to the government policy that deals with Indians. This is not the case.
Leslie Marmon Silko