All Quotes

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
‐‐ Robert Walpole

The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.
‐‐ Shane Warne

The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.
‐‐ Pauly Shore

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
‐‐ Edith Sitwell

The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
‐‐ Billy Evans

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.
‐‐ Rudolf Hilferding

The publicity and hoopla was never important to me.
‐‐ Jesse Stone

The publicity of the Nobel Prize has made clear that the research work connected with the Quantum Hall Effect was so successful because a tremendous large number of institutions and individuals supported this activity.
‐‐ Klaus von Klitzing

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
‐‐ Robert Scheer

The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.
‐‐ James Salter

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
‐‐ Ben Katchor

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
‐‐ J. A. Konrath

The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
‐‐ Leslie Jamison

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
‐‐ Kiran Desai

The Puente Hills Landfill, about sixteen miles east of downtown Los Angeles, serves 5 million people in seventy-eight California cities, one of six landfills operated by the Sanitation Districts of L.A. County.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.
‐‐ David Lindsay-Abaire

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.
‐‐ Gene Weingarten

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.
‐‐ Anita Shreve

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
‐‐ David McCullough

The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.
‐‐ James L. Petigru

The puma... the cat... is not just about power and speed and strength... but it is also a very elegant animal. That's what we've tried to reflect in our products.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.
‐‐ Corrine Brown

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
‐‐ Plato

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
‐‐ Gough Whitlam

The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.
‐‐ Brian Lamb

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.
‐‐ Frederick Soddy

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
‐‐ Betty Buckley

The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part, wherever you can think, even in the midst of the earth, stones, and rocks: as also hell and the kingdom of God's wrath is every where all over.
‐‐ Jakob Bohme

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
‐‐ Charles D. Broad

The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
‐‐ Stephane Mallarme

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
‐‐ Michael Korda

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
‐‐ John Ruskin

The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.
‐‐ Eliezer Yudkowsky

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
‐‐ Francis Parker Yockey

The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
‐‐ Said Nursi