All Quotes

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'
‐‐ Connor Franta

Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.
‐‐ Darell Hammond

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Public trust is essential to public safety.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

Public unions are big money.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.
‐‐ James McHenry

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
‐‐ Daniel Alarcon

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.
‐‐ Jane Russell

Publicity doesn't work for books. It really doesn't. All it does is get your name in front of a reader who might then glance at your book. Or not.
‐‐ Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
‐‐ Joseph Barbera

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.
‐‐ Charles Evans Hughes

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
‐‐ Louis D. Brandeis

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
‐‐ Joe Paterno

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
‐‐ John Berger

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
‐‐ Joseph Pulitzer

Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
‐‐ Patrick Kavanagh

Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik

Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.
‐‐ Jose Mujica

Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.
‐‐ Kevin DeYoung

Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.
‐‐ David Hunt

Publish and be dammed.
‐‐ Duke of Wellington

Publish and be damned.
‐‐ Arthur Wellesley

Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer.
‐‐ John Battelle

Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.
‐‐ John Updike

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.
‐‐ Tim Schafer

Publishers can use realtime ad technology to build their brand on the realtime web. Realtime ad technology gets their hottest content in front of users seconds after it is published, ensuring that their content gets shared and becomes viral before their competitors.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
‐‐ John Hodgman

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.
‐‐ Charles Frazier

Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
‐‐ Tamora Pierce

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.
‐‐ Chet Williamson

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.
‐‐ Jay McInerney

Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
‐‐ J. A. Konrath

Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.
‐‐ Dave Morris

Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars.
‐‐ Tim Bray

Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
‐‐ Don Marquis

Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other.
‐‐ Petina Gappah

Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.
‐‐ Michael A. Stackpole

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.
‐‐ Tucker Max

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
‐‐ Barry Eisler