Public Quotes
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...if you're going to waste an opportunity, there are a few important things to remember. Do it in style. Do it in public. And, above all, do it in Manchester.
Peter Hook
New Order
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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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I told Bill Gates I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow.
Steve Jobs
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We all have our ambassador that we send forward into the world. We all have people we are varying degrees of real with. There's a public face we all wear. As I get older and more comfortable in my skin, I am trying to combine the two so the real me is there all the time.
Sean Maguire
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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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Brexit means Brexit.The public made their verdict.
Theresa May
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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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Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.
Richard Rogers
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As the times change, people change, and so do their tastes, so I try to understand what the public wants, what they require. I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?
Amado Nervo
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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.
Kanan Makiya
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Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.
Linda Ronstadt
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The public library is the great equaliser.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
John Cotton Dana
