Quotes on Public

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

Author: Floyd Abrams

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Author: Scott Adams

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

Author: John Ashcroft

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Author: Chet Atkins

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Author: George Bancroft

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

Author: Jim Barksdale

I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.

Author: Emmanuelle Beart

It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

Author: Warren Beatty

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

Author: Warren Beatty

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Author: Warren Beatty

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Author: Thomas Beecham

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Author: Tony Benn

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.

Author: Rudolf Bing

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

Author: David Blunkett

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.

Author: Kjell Bondevik

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.

Author: Stephen Breyer

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

Author: Stephen Breyer

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

Author: Harold Brodkey

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.

Author: Gro Brundtland

It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

Author: Steve Burns

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

Author: Octavia Butler

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Author: Earl Butz

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

Author: Italo Calvino

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Author: Al Capp

The European public has always been great to me.

Author: Kim Carnes

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

Author: Paul Cezanne

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

Author: Chris Christie

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

Author: Hillary Clinton

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

Author: Glenn Close

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Author: Jean Cocteau

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

Author: Phil Collins

I'm a horrible public speaker.

Author: Bill Condon

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Author: Cyril Connolly

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

Author: Barry Corbin

I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.

Author: Jim Cramer

I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987.

Author: Jim Cramer

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

Author: Imogen Cunningham

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

Author: Ron Dellums

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Author: Walt Disney

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

Author: Placido Domingo

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Author: Placido Domingo

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

Author: Marjory Douglas

Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.

Author: Katherine Dunham

Public radio has always been so powerless.

Author: Bob Edwards

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Author: Chris Elliott

The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.

Author: Mel Ferrer

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

Author: Errol Flynn

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

Author: Jim Fowler

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

Author: Helen Gahagan

A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

Author: Mickey Gilley

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

Author: Dan Glickman

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

Author: Trisha Goddard

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions.

Author: Terry Gross

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

Author: Bill Halter

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

Author: Lionel Hampton

I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing.

Author: Daryl Hannah

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

Author: Ed Harris

I have come East to find what the public likes.

Author: Sessue Hayakawa

Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message.

Author: John Hench

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Author: Eric Hoffer

Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.

Author: Lamar Hunt

It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.

Author: John Hutton

You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.

Author: Julio Iglesias

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

Author: George Jessel

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

Author: Richard Jewell

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

Author: Herman Kahn

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Author: Thomas Kempis

The public has become my fairy godmother.

Author: Eartha Kitt

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.

Author: Olga Korbut

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

Author: Jonathan Kozol

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

Author: Karl Kraus

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

Author: Hedy Lamarr

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Author: Alphonse Lamartine

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

Author: Joseph Lancaster

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

Author: James Larkin

The public seldom forgive twice.

Author: Johann Lavater

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Author: Fran Lebowitz

If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

Author: Carl Levin

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

Author: George Lewes

That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.

Author: Joseph Lincoln

The public is always good.

Author: Franz Liszt

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.

Author: Andrea Martin

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

Author: John McAfee

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Author: Christa McAuliffe

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

Author: Carolyn McCarthy

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

Author: Robert McChesney

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

Author: Robert McChesney

So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you.

Author: Reba McEntire

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

Author: James McHenry

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Author: Marshall McLuhan

The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

Author: Vince McMahon

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

Author: George Mead

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

Author: Moliere

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

Author: Maria Monk

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

Author: James Monroe

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Author: Marilyn Monroe

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.

Author: Mario Monti

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Author: Andrew Morton

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

Author: Bob Newhart

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!

Author: Robert Owen

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

Author: Michel Patini

If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.

Author: James Pickle

You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.

Author: Rosamund Pike

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Author: Elvis Presley

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

Author: Victoria Principal

The public is a bad guesser.

Author: Thomas Quincey

If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.

Author: Cliff Richard

The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.

Author: Jeremy Rifkin

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

Author: Ja Rule

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

Author: Mathias Rust

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

Author: Antonin Scalia

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Author: Tom Scholz

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

Author: Liev Schreiber

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

Author: Charles Schumer

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Author: Irwin Shaw

Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

Author: Norma Shearer

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

Author: M. Sherwood

If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai.

Author: Thaksin Shinawatra

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

Author: John Sladek

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

Author: Louise Slaughter

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Author: Adam Smith

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

Author: Todd Solondz

If the public likes you, you're good.

Author: Mickey Spillane

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

Author: George Stigler

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

Author: Michael Stipe

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

Author: David Talbot

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.

Author: Henry Thomas

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

Author: Michael Tippett

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

Author: Edward Tufte

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

Author: Mark Twain

The public be damned.

Author: William Vanderbilt

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Author: Voltaire

I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

Author: Julie Walters

The public are not stupid.

Author: Pete Waterman

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

Author: Pete Waterman

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Author: Allen Weinstein

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Author: Andrew Wiles

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

Author: Esther Williams

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Author: Juan Williams

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

Author: Rowan Williams

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

Author: James Young

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

Author: Loretta Young

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

The public is never wrong.

Author: Adolph Zukor