Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that...

Saddam Hussein’s trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It’s just very public when they fail.

I don’t often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with...

Dare to risk public criticism.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation – itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust –...

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to...

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

Feminism’s agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic. I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more...

I believe the public’s confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle, and viable social movements, democracy will slip out of our reach...

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in...

Simply as a writer of books I’m thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the...

I don’t know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

One thing you’ll learn when you’re in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there’s really no bottom to where they’ll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit...

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That’s where the action is. And it’s the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in...

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young...

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

I don’t discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I’ve given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is empowering and hopeful, rather than disappointing. My conclusion is not a moralistic one about who...

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

I’m a liberal – I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.

I like to talk. That’s why I can’t karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space.

When the private does well, there’s revenue for the public sector.

From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It’s a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on...

Our learning ought to be our lives’ amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don’t have immediate...

I’m really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it’s really an...

Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

‘2016’ is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I’m not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public...

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It’s not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have...

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him, and science gives today the only...

I’m not the ‘look at me’ kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

I’m just not a private person. It’s not like I do things because I want things to be public; it’s just that’s my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.