Quotes About Public

In England, ballet is kind of closed. They are opening up a little bit, but it was always something not for the general public. So you don't get fame, like a football star or a film star. And if you don't get fame, you can't do other stuff.

Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.

I'm for Internet openness. We're all for Internet openness. If you asked the American people, I think they support it. Internet companies, broadband companies are all in favor of it.

I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want to see it used for.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, particularly when they involve the deployment of public funds.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. 

I forgot that little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has someday to cry aloud on the housetops.

JACK. I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON. We have. JACK. I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON. The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course. JACK. What fools!

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about the public.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Like all good reputations... every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Yes: the public is wonderfully tolerant.  It forgives everything except genius.