Public Quotes

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility.

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.

I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

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

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under 'Public Improvements.'

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

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

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

I'm not a competitive person.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

Unless you're trying to make a movie on the sly, there's no way to get around this. If you want to use public spaces, film on the streets, have the cooperation of the police, you have to have a permit.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

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.

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

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

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

Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.