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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. -- Golda Meir
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. -- William S. Paley
The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. -- John Quincy Adams
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story. -- Rebecca Solnit
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history. -- Natasha Trethewey
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. -- Barbara Kruger
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. -- Samuel Butler
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. -- Jon Meacham
Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history. -- Bethany McLean
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history. -- John Coleman
There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be. -- Ed Asner
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good. -- Anita Roddick
I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1. -- Norman Foster
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward. -- Jack Layton
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. -- Frank Gehry
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. -- Paul Gauguin
I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service. -- Fritz Hollings
Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned. -- Samuel Dash
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. -- Alfred de Vigny
The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history. -- Sarah Harrison
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public. -- Richard Serra
If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company. -- Ashton Kutcher
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. -- Johan Huizinga
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. -- C. V. Wedgwood
Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place. -- Dennis Miller
We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed. -- Mark Wallace
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience. -- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country. -- Kevin Starr
America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see. -- Gene Kelly
I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them. -- E. O. Wilson
At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact... -- Aberjhani
Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose. -- Artie Lange
I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year. -- Chris Gethard
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. -- Tadao Ando
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history. -- Ludwig von Mises

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