Quotes of: Public-discourse Keyword

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

Phyllis Schlafly

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Thomas Wolfe

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

Margot Kidder

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Allen Ginsberg

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Robert W. Service

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

Juliana Hatfield

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

Marina Abramovic

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

Mark Ruffalo

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

Bill Wyman

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

Lauryn Hill

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

Natalie Imbruglia

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Henry Adams

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

Dick Morris

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.

Mark McKinnon

In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

Michio Kaku

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.

Alexander Graham Bell

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

Alastair Campbell

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

Al Capp

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

Andrew Cuomo

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Abraham Lincoln

I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.

Al Pacino