Quotes of: Public-figures Keyword

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

Lewis Grizzard

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

Lady Bird Johnson

Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.

Linda Ronstadt

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

Leo Tolstoy

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

Michael Eisner

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

Marilyn Monroe

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

Mary McCormack

Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

Raf Simons

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

Rob Zombie

Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.

Sandra Bullock

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

Steve Coogan

I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity.

Mark Walter

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

Nicole Appleton

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

Nick Cannon

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Noam Chomsky

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Noam Chomsky

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.

Norman Cook

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

Nancy Kerrigan