Quotes About Privacy

For some reason I want to keep a secret. I want to cup it in my hands and keep it safe like an egg. I want to fold it in the corner of my cheek where it is safe and dark.

Search warrant or no, it always felt weird to me to walk into the house of a stranger. But there's also a voyeuristic fascination: what a person chooses to surround himself with tells you a lot about him.

How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young. Sometimes very young children look at the old, and a look passes between them, conspiratorial, sly and knowing. It's because neither are human to the middling ones, those in their prime, as they say, like beef.

Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

Never let them know who you really are, how you live, and that you can observe and think, that was her motto.

I am still that child. I eavesdrop on the conversations of strangers in restaurants, in airports and supermarkets. I drive my husband crazy with questions sometimes; but I am still a good listener and I still keep secrets.

As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date. It's goin' to be an ole-fashioned concep', mark my words. That's a prophecy.

home video starring her soon-to-be ex-husband and two of the female production assistants from his latest film had already been uploaded to the Internet. By the time she arrived at her Malibu home—she'd stopped once on the way from the set of her latest movie promo shoot to pick up dinner—the one-thousandth viewing had already been downloaded.

Did her daughters really think they had a right to know everything about her past? What was it about discovering the truth that had made them both so indignant?

the house. She was ashamed about the Mars Bar

where the more distant phrasing can lend a veneer of respectability to the otherwise prurient-seeming habit of a naturalist spying on other creatures' intimate lives).

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy , was privacy --for their patrons and themselves.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

My relationship with food is intimate. I don't eat and tell.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.