Famous quotes containing the words public and/or school:
“It is because the public are a massinert, obtuse, and passivethat they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they areand also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.”
—Alfred Jarry (18731907)
“Neither can I do anything to please critics belonging to the good old school of projected biography, who examine an authors work, which they do not understand, through the prism of his life, which they do not know.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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