Quotes of: Public-life Keyword

I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

Gabriel Basso

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

Kevin Costner

[after her affair has become public knowledge, Sheba has moved out of her home and is staying with Barbara] Barbara Covett: [voiceover] This last month has been the most delicious time of my life. Of course we have had our ups and downs. The pressure...

Notes on a Scandal

When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste. "It is not m...

The Fountainhead

The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not i...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we comp...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having b...

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Volume 1 of 2

The public talk -- and injuriously! -- Well! are you ignorant of the little importance of such talk? -- The public speak! -- It is not the world, it is only the despicable part of it -- only the ill-natured, who upon the smallest evidence pass rash j...

Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf, Joseph Boruwlaski, A Polish Gentleman; Containing a faithful and curious Account of his Birth, Education, Marriage, Travels, and Voyages

You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by , , &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject it, and prove in my opinion that it is premature, insufficient and false. These latter are joined by the Brit...

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and indepe...

H.L. Mencken

It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of ...

Naomi Klein

To be acquainted today with the results of the public opinions on both sides- Palestinian–Israeli -, is a necessary and valuable attribute to the long term viability of the whole peace process. When both public opinions, Israeli and the Palestinian...

Dr. Nabil Kukali

Majority of people on both sides want peace, but each side does not believe that the other side wants also the same, since there is no contact, no knowledge, and no trust. Mechanism for overcoming psychological barriers and progressing towards a solu...

Dr. Nabil Kukali

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Placido Domingo

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Richard Rogers

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

David Elliott

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

James Broughton

Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.

Master of Stupidity

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

Vanna White

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

Jo Linsdell

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

Jimmy Wales