Publicity Quotes

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. (Lily Tomlin)
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. View quote
Brendan Behan
The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. View quote
George Carlin
The price of justice is eternal publicity. View quote
Arnold Bennett
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. View quote
Henry Adams
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity. View quote
Vivien Leigh
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt. View quote
Tony Randall
We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. ... It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. View quote
David Rockefeller
... the Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity. (Muhammad Reza Pahlavi)
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. View quote
Gloria Swanson
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. View quote
Thomas Wolfe
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore! View quote
Larry Niven
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. View quote
John W. Campbell
I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but nothing in my experience or observation confirms the idea that he is insensitive to publicity. Who does not prefer good to ill report of his work? And if fame - a good public name - is, as Milton said, the "last infirmity of noble mind", it is frequently the first infirmity of a mediocre one. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
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. View quote
Louis Brandeis
The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television. View quote
Andy Warhol
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity. View quote
Bill Moyers
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit. View quote
Robert M. La Follette Sr.
As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977 the bow-wave of publicity for the first Star Wars movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional. View quote
Philip Reeve
It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity. View quote
Michael Hutchence