Public Quotes
-
Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.
Quintus Tullius Cicero -
The public has shown confidence that any increases in inflation will be temporary and that, in the long run, inflation will remain low.
Ben Bernanke
-
The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead -
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
John Ruskin -
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
E. M. Forster -
Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
Rachel Sklar -
He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
Francis Bacon
-
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
Oscar Wilde -
Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
Katharine Hepburn -
We are showing how determined we are to crack down on the distress nuisance calls cause the public.
Alan Johnson -
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
Oscar Wilde -
If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.
Paul McGann -
The public always picks quality.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
-
A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.
Jean Chretien -
If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
Alice Rivlin -
If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
Linda Ronstadt -
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
Albert Shanker -
I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe -
The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
Oswald Chambers
-
They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
Oscar Wilde -
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
Oscar Wilde -
It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
Alfred Jarry