Quotes About Private

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

I want someone that's caring, funny, who's similar to me - who doesn't take life too seriously - keeps their private life private and is mature!

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

John Barleycorn's final words: "I've had more friends in private and more foes in public than any other man in America.

Writing is one of the loneliest professions in the world because it has to be practiced in this very separate private world, in _here_. Not in the mind; in the imagination. And I think it is possible that the writing of fantasy is the loneliest job of the lot, since you have to go further inside. You have to make so close a connection with the unconscious that the unbiddable door will open and the images fly out, like birds.

Secrets help toxic parents cope by turning their families into private little clubs to which no outsiders are admitted.

A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. Not only because it can always be added to, but because it is already too much. The collector's need is precisely for excess, for surfeit, for profusion. It's too much—and it's just enough for me. … A collection is always more than is necessary.

Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artífice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric - something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

Every man's memory is his private literature."- Aldous Huxley

Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.

The monologue of an isolated person who allows the threads of private thoughts to surface in letters and conversations, even in conversations with strangers.

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

We now see hacking taking place by foreign governments and by private individuals all around the world.

I am such an indoor person.

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

My insane mascara layering is my private homage to Winona Ryder's amazing peepers.

Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

And a pang is ultimately private. It's not a thing that gets broadcast to the world; it's a kind of internal alarm that sounds when something has to change and it has to change fast.

If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.

Every time I'm in a private interview with teams, I have an opportunity to get on the board, and every team's been impressed with my football IQ.

Virginia Woolf said that people read fiction the same way they listen to gossip, so if you're reading this at all then you might as well read my private asides written so he'll read it. I have to be extremely funny and wonderful around him just to get his attention at all and it's a shame to let it all go for one person.

Pressed by the ministers in private, she had admitted what she believed: that a minister who, in her view, was not sealed with the spirit could not preach a covenant of grace "so clearly as Cotton.

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.