Quotes About Privacy

As I'm sure you know, to be in one's own room, in one's own bed, can often make a bleak situation a little better.

It is one of the strange truths of life that practically nobody likes to be stared at and that practically nobody can stop themselves from staring....

It can be powerful to write the name of a person you have kissed or even just someone you wish you had kissed, on a scrap of paper where no one else can see, or carved into the trunk of a tree where everyone can. It is even powerful just to write it down in your mind when you are alone.

Who you are and what you read is private in a library.

My parents are artists in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

When you're eight years old, nothing is your business.

The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.

Right now, who is really more powerful? Google or the NSA?

HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE.

I pressed my face into my pillow and squelched some extracolorful words. Way to go, ace — have embarrassing personal thoughts while you're two feet from a mind reader.

Shakespeare's sonnets give us no access to his personal history.

Cookies are code that sites attach to the IP address on a computer

Home affairs are not talked about on the public square. ~ African Proverb

I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, I want to be alone. I want simply to come home, close the door, and sit in silence, gathering up the bits of myself that have come loose. I want to think, or not think. I want to rest.

sequestered

Eleanor went to her room where she was free to think and be wretched.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.