T Quotes
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“The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.”
“The public space of the museum is not my favorite, loud and full of tourists and school groups and hungry hordes. Their curiosity is endearing---they're acolytes for the natural world. And the marble gleams with architectural detail and precious objects all around. But on these, my gray days, entering the building carries the weight of death: all the specimens, thousands of carcasses of every species, stuffed or otherwise retrieved from oblivion so we can know them, yet all dead. The birds I draw and paint, all dead. On these days, my only defense is to imagine every pinned butterfly taking wing, every stuffed marsupial waking up, every preserved plant specimen blooming and carpeting the marble floor like a time-lapse forest, and every bird coming to life, flying up to the dome and away. On the days when the fog comes and hooks into my gut like a sharp-toothed parasite, these visions can save me.
The steadier, more consistent salvation, of course, is the work. I can lose myself for hours drawing, for instance, the common loon, with its inky head, white banding at the neck, and an intricacy of pin dots and fractured rectangles cascading across the wings. With the right precision, I can bring the deadness of a bird skin to a striking facsimile of life.”
Source: The Marsh Queen
“The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.”
“The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.”
“The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.”
“The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.”
“The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“The public takes little notice of those who want to abolish abortion. They are dismissed as extremists. If I were to argue that all abortions should be banned, the ethical discussions would go round in circles.... My view is that the only way forward is to argue for a reduction in the time limit... saving some lives is better than saving no lives at all. I hope pro-lifers will come to share my view that some progress is better than no progress.”
“The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.”
“The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.”
“The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.”
Source: The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes - and why
“The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.”
“The public trusts big data way too much.”
“The public use of one’s reason must always be free, and it alone can bring about enlightenment among men.”
Source: Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals/What Is Enlightenment?
“The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.”
“The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.”
“The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.”
“The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.”
“The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.”
“The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's all of those things and social media facilitates a big chunk of that, because they want to touch and feel you, they want to talk to someone about it, they want to join a community of other people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.”
“The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.”
“The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.”
“The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.”
Source: The writings of a savage
“The public wants work which flatters its illusions.”
“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.”
Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.”
“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.”
Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography
“The public will either love you, or hate you; plain and simple. You determine if they respect you. That’s what matters. The rest is superficial.”
Source: Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings
“The public will not forgive us if their wish to leave is subject to a bitter and a divisive Conservative Party leadership race between Remain and Leave camps.”
“The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.”
“The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.”
“The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.”
“The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.”
“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.”
“The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.”
“The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.”
“The public's not stupid.”
“The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.”
“The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.”
Source: Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today
“The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.”
“The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.”
“The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.”
“The public, regardless of its social origin, likes, above all, that which is easily accessible.”
“The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.”
Source: Democracy in America
“The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his new-hidden thoughts lucidly and according to accepted models.”
“The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.”
Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.”
Source: Memories of My Life
“The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect upon them of the flash of light, which to a man who has lost himself in a dark night, suddenly reveals a road which, whether it takes him straight home or not, certainly goes his way. That which we were looking for, and could not find, was a hypothesis respecting the origin of known organic forms, which assumed the operation of no causes but such as could be proved to be actually at work. We wanted, not to pin our faith to that or any other speculation, but to get hold of clear and definite conceptions which could be brought face to face with facts and have their validity tested. The 'Origin' provided us with the working hypothesis we sought.”
Source: On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species'
“The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.”