Public Quotes

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.

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

A career is born in public-talent in privacy.

A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

I have been occupying a position, since the Presidential election, of silence, of avoiding public speaking, of avoiding public writing. I have been doing so because I thought, upon full consideration, that was the proper course for me to take.

Let it be public, full, and fair. No cliqueism or cheatery about it.