Quotes About Public

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.

As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

I do not understand why our society is providing public funding to institutions and educators whose stated, conscious and explicit aim is the demolition of the culture that supports them. Such people have a perfect right to their opinions and actions, if they remain lawful. But they have no reasonable claim to public funding.

Order is the public façade we're called upon to wear, the politeness of a gathering of civilized strangers, and the thin ice on which we all skate.

Nonetheless, I do not understand why our society is providing public funding to institutions and educators whose stated, conscious and explicit aim is the demolition of the culture that supports them.

can't see how this behaviour would have improved his popularity or status.

The fact that automobiles pollute only becomes a problem of sufficient magnitude to attract public attention when the far worse problems that the internal combustion engine solves vanished from view.

Public opinion doesn't exist. More precisely, it exists sometimes, concerning matters about which there's a clear majority view.

People often complain that no one likes facts and numbers and reason and science anymore, but as someone who talks about those things in public, I can tell you that's not true. People love numbers, and are impressed by them, sometimes more than they should be.

It's an unflattering portrait of the American public. Either we are babies, unable to grasp that budget cuts will inevitably reduce funding to programs we support; or we are mulish, irrational children, who understand the math but refuse to accept it.

The average American thinks there are plenty of non-worthwhile federal programs that are wasting our money and is ready and willing to put them on the chopping block to make ends meet. The problem is, there's no consensus on which programs are the worthless ones.

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

Niemand profiteert meer van cynisme over politiek dan cynische politici.

indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public has taken to hum it and the street organs to play it, so the work of art that has appealed to the sham connoisseurs, that is admired by the uncritical, that is not content to rouse the enthusiasm of only a chosen few, becomes for this very reason, in the eyes of the elect, a thing polluted, commonplace, almost repulsive.

and, indeed, just as the most charming tune in the world becomes vulgar, intolerable, as soon as the general public is humming it, as soon as the street - organs have taken it up, the work for which charlatan art fanciers do not remain indifferent, the work which nitwits do not challenge, which is not satisfied with arousing the enthusiasm of the few, also becomes, by virtue of that very fact, corrupted, banal, almost repellent to the initiated.

et, en effet, si le plus bel air du monde devient vulgaire, insupportable, dès que le public le fredonne, dès que les orgues s'en emparent, l'œuvre d'art qui ne demeure pas indifférente aux faux artistes, qui n'est point contestée par les sots, qui ne se contente pas de susciter l'enthousiasme de quelques-uns, devient, elle aussi, par cela même, pour les initiés, polluée, banale, presque repoussante.

Vivimos tiempos en los que la demagogia ha sustituido a lo que debe ser la política y halagar las pasiones del pueblo es moneda corriente.

En la vida se es actor o público, timonel o galeote. Es tan doloroso pasar del timón al remo, como salir del escenario para ocupar una butaca, aunque ésta sea de primera fila. El que ha conocido el aplauso no sabe resignarse a la oscuridad; ésa es la parte más cruel de toda preeminencia fundada en el capricho ajeno o en aptitudes físicas transitorias.

Ni a mí, que el orbe es testigo de que hipócrita no soy, pues por doequiera que voy va el escándalo conmigo.