Win The Life

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly

 

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. - Russell Wayne Baker

 

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith

 

How dreary, to be, somebody! How public, like a frog, to tell your name, the livelong June, to an admiring bog! - Emily Dickinson

 

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

 

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning. - Lewis Thomas

 

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. - Sir Francis Bacon

 

Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally unscrewed-up personality. - Douglas Adams

 

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. - Antonin Artaud

 

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.-Roger Bannister

 

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.-Brian Mulroney

 

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.-Heidi Klum

 

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.-Paul Cezanne

 

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.-Paul Cezanne

 

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.-Iris Murdoch

 

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.-John Boehner

 

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.-Dick Cheney

 

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.-Katharine Graham

 

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

 

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.-Walter Benjamin

 

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.-Walter Benjamin

 

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.-Walter Benjamin

 

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.-Sandra Cisneros

 

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.-George Will

 

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.-Camille Paglia

 

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.-Daniel Boone

 

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.-Vivienne Westwood

 

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

 

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.-Walter Winchell

 

I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.-Carrie Underwood

 

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.-Barbra Streisand

 

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.-William J. Clinton

 

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.-Humphrey Bogart

 

All you owe the public is a good performance.-Humphrey Bogart

 

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.-William Gibson

 

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.-Donald Cargill

 

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.-Wynton Marsalis

 

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.-Wynton Marsalis

 

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.-Erica Jong

 

You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!-Giorgio Armani

 

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.-Tom Wolfe

 

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.-Jean Cocteau

 

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.-Jean Cocteau

 

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.-Jean Cocteau

 

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.-Moliere

 

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.-Edwin Louis Cole

 

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.-Anita Brookner

 

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.-Catherine Deneuve

 

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.-John L. Lewis

 

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.-Hubert H. Humphrey

 

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.-Golda Meir

 

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.-Golda Meir

 

It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer. There are people who know who I really am, and that's good enough for me.-Jennifer Lopez

 

In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder.'-Jennifer Lopez

 

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.-Dan Quayle

 

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.-Dan Quayle

 

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.-Donald Rumsfeld

 

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.-Donald Rumsfeld

 

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.-Adam Smith

 

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.-Gerald R. Ford

 

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.-Richard P. Feynman

 

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.-Richard P. Feynman

 

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.-Aesop

 

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.-Robert Anton Wilson

 

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.-Ray Bradbury

 

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.-Eric Hoffer

 

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.-Jonathan Swift

 

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.-Jonathan Swift

 

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.-Harrison Ford