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Quotes About Privacy

It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
But let me be honest, I would rather wear a hazmat suit on holiday than get caught by a camera in swimwear.
~ Susanna Reid
I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
~ John Travolta
In private, I may wear a bikini, but at the public beach with my kids, I would change bathing suits because they do not want to be hanging out with some old broad in a bikini.
~ Christie Brinkley
These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.
~ Amaury Nolasco
We think the government should be pushing for more encryption. That it's a great thing. You know, it's like the sun and the air and the water.
~ Tim Cook
I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much.
~ Dianna Agron
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.
~ Pete Seeger
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
~ Pete Seeger
I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people's space a bit more here. Everyone has the right to that freedom, right? Everyone has that right. It's freezing in New York right now. In L.A., it's sunny. But I would choose freezing over being followed.
~ Mary-Kate Olsen
Lawmakers who support CISA will tell you the bill includes some privacy protections. They're right. But these 'protections' are superficial and include broad loopholes that are so far-reaching as to render the protections meaningless.
~ Jared Polis
As far as social media and all that, I understand connecting with fans on a different level, but I don't feel the need to open myself up to the opinion of everybody in the world with a phone or computer. I just don't get that, being connected to everybody on such a superficial level like that. It's not really for me.
~ Dean Ambrose
I can see myself lying in my little high-sided bed, not sleeping and somehow vaguely intimating that that was how life would be: full of special things that are only intended for one person and cannot be told of.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
affluence has bought us privacy, and the apparent power to guard it against the encroachments of other people's adversity.
~ Ram Dass
They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running.
~ Ray Bradbury
Then, of course, the telephone's such a convenient thing; it just sits there and demands you call someone who doesn't want to be called.
~ Ray Bradbury
Siamo in troppi pensava intanto. Siamo in miliardi di esseri su questa terra e miliardi e miliardi sono troppi. Non ci conosciamo tra noi. Nessuno conosce qualcuno degli altri. Sconosciuti vengono a violare la tua intimità. Sconosciuti ti entrano in casa e ti strappano il cuore dal petto. Ti succhiano via tutto il sangue.
~ Ray Bradbury
Everything, thought Lavinia, is boxed and locked and wrapped and shaded. She imagined the people in their moonlit beds. And their breathing in the summer-night rooms, safe and together.
~ Ray Bradbury
You can't ever have my books," she said.
~ Ray Bradbury
No quiero aburrirlos demasiado con lo que me ocurrió personalmente
~ Joseph Conrad
George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 than anything else.
~ Joseph Mercola
Secrets that reside only in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears.
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell