Public Quotes
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Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.
Trisha Goddard -
Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
Eliot Spitzer
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The public library is the great equaliser.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.
Eric Frank Russell -
Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.
Catharine Arnold -
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
Marilyn Monroe -
I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat, but I was willing to take that to the trenches if you know what I mean. I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to... I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!
Bernie Finkelstein -
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
Socrates
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The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
Amanda Ripley -
I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.
Rupert Friend -
The American public deserves answers. Her record is so thin we don't know anything about her.
Nancy Keenan -
If businesses are to redeem themselves in the eyes of the public and regain the trust that they have lost, they should worry a lot more about what they stand for and entrust those with expertise in communication a much freer rein to express this in ways that people might recognise as being sincere and sympathetic, rather than stilted and formulaic.
Nick Baker -
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 -
In America, we have anti-nepotism laws in the federal government and in lots of state governments, because the practice of hiring relatives undermines public confidence that the government official is actually finding best person for the job.
Kathleen Clark
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While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
Benigno Aquino III -
The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
Marilyn Monroe -
It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.
Edwin H. Friedman -
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.
Wesley Clark -
I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.
Kay Ryan -
Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
Claude Monet
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I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so it's a matter of me having the faith that it's gonna come out. Whether or not the public's gonna like it is another story. But I think as long as I keep changing and sticking to what I really love - and the same goes for Steven and the other guys in the band - then people are gonna like it.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.
Anthony Swofford -
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
Rudyard Kipling -
Why was the public so forgiving? Partly because everybody was still in love with the legacy of Steve Jobs, who was never the world’s most diplomatic guy (in fact, he may have invented Cheat 5 about pissing people off) but was somebody who never got accused of not giving a shit. People knew he lived and breathed his products, and in a world of depersonalized, manipulative commerce, that was exactly what it took to build brand loyalty, and in turn create the most golden of opportunities: the second chance. When you get a do-over on your screw-ups, you can almost always find the fix.
Brian Wong