Public Quotes

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.

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.