Famous quotes containing the words public and/or water:
“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)