Public Quotes
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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.
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The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.
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A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master. Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
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I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.
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We think the 'livestock show' will make it fun for our exhibitors and the public. Costumes will be allowed, but are not required.
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If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.
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People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
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The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.
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The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.
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Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.
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This dumb little moment was the first time I heard a stranger hating me in public. I knew then, for real, that thousands of people were having the exact conversation all over the world every moment of every day. Those people were real and their thoughts were formed by overblown or just straight made up stories about me that I could never adequately defend myself against. People all over the world whom I had never met and would never meet hated me. HATED. And what they thought about me was completely out of my control.
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The public must and will be served.
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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.
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Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
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Part of the intro to life in the public eye is, you get a bit of attention from fashion designers.
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Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.
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It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
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The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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Acting is like any other profession. I do not think stars need to have any hang-ups in public. I do not like to be treated like someone special - and this I say because I am normal and not because I want to sound humble.
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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. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
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Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.
