Public Quotes
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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.
Oscar Wilde
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It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.
Mary Doria Russell
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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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I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.
Phil Collins
Genesis
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Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.
Ice Cube
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All actors should experience public failure.
Olivia Wilde
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Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
Walt Disney
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My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.
Lady Gaga
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What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.
Newton N. Minow
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To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
Catherine Deneuve
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
Oscar Wilde
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Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.
Felix Rohatyn
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The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.
Ralph Regula
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Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.
Philip Glass
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.
Abraham Lincoln
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The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered.
Dr. John
