Top 100 The Public Quotes
#1. Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem.
David Blunkett
#2. The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.
Peter Jacobsen
#3. We can hardly complain about prayer being taken from the public schools if we are not praying in our Christian homes.
Kristen Welch
#4. Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.
Robert G. Picard
#5. When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.
Lizzy Caplan
#6. In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.
Roland Orzabal
#7. I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me.
Jesse Eisenberg
#8. My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.
William Randolph Hearst
#9. Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.
Ralph Raico
#10. Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.
David Berman
#11. Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.
Richard Peto
#12. The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.
James Monroe
#13. A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.
William Shawcross
#14. The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.
George Bernard Shaw
#15. No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.
W.S. Gilbert
#16. If there is a mutual distrust between the weather forecaster and the public, the public may not listen when they need to most.
Nate Silver
#17. Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.
Allen West
#18. As long asthe audience or the public perceives you to be sincere in your approach and not petty, they will think it's fair and they will wait for the other person's response. But if they sense it's petty or the slightest bit unfair, they'll turn on you right away.
Roger Ailes
#19. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing
will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.
Patrick Henry
#20. Who is the public now that it has changed color?
Judy Baca
#21. The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper.And it remains on paper.
Edwin Lefevre
#22. When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.
James McGreevey
#23. Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.
Edward Snowden
#24. Auschwitz was attacked and recovered by the Russian forces on January 27th, 1945. A very short time before that date Buchenwald had been reconquered. Buchenwald was the first concentration camp to be opened and exposed to the public eye.
Javier Gomez Perez
#25. The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver
#26. we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With
Oscar Wilde
#28. The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
Amy Goodman
#29. Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.
Billy Graham
#30. I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that very demand. We educate our patients and their friends to believe that every or almost every symptom and disease can be benefited by a drug.
Richard Clarke Cabot
#31. If the people are the landlords of the public airwaves and the television and radio stations are the tenants, why don't the tenants pay rent?
Ralph Nader
#32. The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited ... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Calvin Coolidge
#33. The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.
Marc Morano
#34. Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington ... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing.
Pete Hegseth
#35. Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
Walt Disney
#36. Schneider has made a career of telling the public that the climate is going to change drastically, and indeed every spring and fall he's been right.
P. J. O'Rourke
#37. I have nothing bad to say about my job. I love the public, I love to talk, get to know people, everything.
Selena
#38. He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
Lance Morrow
#39. Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.
George William Norris
#40. The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Ezra Pound
#41. The public is often right during the trends, but wrong at both ends
Humphrey B. Neill
#42. Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T. S. Eliot
#43. I already have the weird experience of having a name for myself personally that's connected to someone that's in the public eye. So you have me, Zooey Deschanel, and then there's Zooey Deschanel's public persona.
Zooey Deschanel
#44. The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
Benjamin Haydon
#45. God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.
Pat Swindall
#47. He's the same in the court-room as he is on the public streets.
Harper Lee
#48. Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.
Greg Graffin
#49. You know, if it's a three-way race, the public has more choice than if it's a two-way race, and has more choice in a two-way race than a one-way race.
Michael Bloomberg
#50. The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven.
Donald Bradman
#51. You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
Wayne Rogers
#52. Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains - do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited.
Henry Ford
#53. I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
Bill Gurley
#54. The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.
Herb Ritts
#55. You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
Oscar Wilde
#56. I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.
Lyle Lovett
#57. It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.
Clement Freud
#58. I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.
John Gimlette
#59. When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.
Shannon Miller
#60. Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.
Edward Bernays
#61. When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
William Bagley
#62. I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.
Rufus Sewell
#63. The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling.
Ivan Illich
#64. Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every time they buy a pirated CD, they hurt the industry. The only ones who can change that are the fans and the people that buy CDs. It's everybody's responsibility to prevent it.
Luis Miguel
#65. The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious ...
Oscar Wilde
#66. Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.
Mariana Mazzucato
#67. It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
Thom Mayne
#68. His supervisor, a well-liked ranger by the name of Dick McLaren, gave Randy a line of advice to which he would adhere for the rest of his career: 'The best way to teach the public isn't with a citation, it's with communication.
Eric Blehm
#69. In order to conduct a propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Access to the real environment must be limited, before anyone can create a pseudo-environment that he thinks wise or desirable. For
Walter Lippmann
#70. For the public, it seemed, preferred to believe that which disturbed it least and to ignore troublesome information. Which is a failing common to all nations.
M.M. Kaye
#71. I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.
Nick Lowe
#72. You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.
Mary McCormack
#73. Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe ...
Ludwig Von Mises
#74. The 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.
Mary Ritter Beard
#75. It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
Hector Berlioz
#76. After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.
David Talbot
#77. For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
Brian Greene
#78. It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
Floyd Abrams
#79. Embracing government activism, he asserted that the public benefit fully justified the government "in making expenditures in the direction that no private enterprise could afford to go.
Charles W. Calhoun
#80. Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Henry Miller
#81. The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things
Terry Pratchett
#82. What I don't want is to be in the public's face all the time. I know there are people who will do anything and everything to be out there. That's not my agenda. I love doing what I do and doing it for a period of time and then stopping.
Anthony Warlow
#83. Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#84. Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'
Will C. Barnes
#85. Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
Rudyard Kipling
#86. My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
John Lasseter
#87. Stop-and-search has the potential to cause immense resentment and honesty to the police, with all the implications that has for generating distrust and ending co-operation from the public, if it is not used fairly.
Theresa May
#88. Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
Ben Jonson
#89. It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.
Enrico Caruso
#90. It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
Veerappa Moily
#91. Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.
Ben Yagoda
#92. [My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.
Rex Smith
#93. It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
Sal Albanese
#94. I think there's a lack of understanding which is partly our fault as scientists and physicians in not communicating well enough with the public. But there's a lack of understanding of how important biomedical research is.
Laurie Glimcher
#95. No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.
John F. Kennedy
#96. The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
Vince McMahon
#97. I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.
Isadora Duncan
#98. Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government.
Bill Bright
#99. If you want to create a high-society, you must give high things to the public! Show the public eagle; public will be an eagle! Show the public a rat, public will be a rat! Whatever you give to the public, public will take that! To create a high-society, you must give high things to the public!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying.
Thomas Sowell
