Quotes of: Public-figures Keyword

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

Virginia Woolf

Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult

Writing for Scholarly Publication

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Abraham Lincoln

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

Andrew Motion

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

Kate Smith

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Louis D. Brandeis

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

Nate Silver

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

Patricia Highsmith

The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.

Peter James

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

Rudolf Bing

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

Rachel Cusk

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

Richard Donner

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

Rube Goldberg

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

Richard Jewell

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Sigmund Freud

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

Shia LaBeouf

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

Sienna Miller

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

Trisha Goddard

It doesn't worry me what anyone says, except when publicity hurts others.

Terry Jones

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

Taylor Swift