Public Quotes

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He's a guy that looks good. He's very articulate, he's very smart, and he truly is a public servant.

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility.

It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.