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Quotes About Secrecy

Hiding is for amateurs.
~ Ally Carter
Cada persona tiene una imagen o una memoria que guarda en secreto. Una que tiene que desenvolver, como un trozo de caramelo, por las noches. Si uno pasa por allí, cae en el valle de la ensoñación.
~ Alyson Richman
Far enough away from the White House to live above land, she thought. That was a good one: menacing yet vague.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
Cel mai atractiv lucru din lume este fata pe care, instinctiv, o acoperim cu o panza. Cand ajunge si mai atragatoare, fascinanta chiar, o punem la doi metri sub pamant.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There are a hundred reasons to carry a blade in a slaughterhouse. But there can only ever be one reason to try and hide one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
?le jej z oczu patrzy - wyszepta?a, kiedy zyska?a pewno??, ?e nikt ich nie us?yszy. - Owszem. - I ksi??? si? jej s?ucha. - Owszem. - I trafi?a tu przed nami. - Owszem. [...] Ojciec Yarvi spojrza? na ni? z kwa?n? min?. - A widzisz? Jednak znasz si? na dyplomacji.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Dark times are the best for dark business,
~ Joe Abercrombie
I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today.
~ Joe Hill
The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star
~ Joe Hill
there, behind that hedge. Keep low. After Mindy makes the call, her
~ Joe Hill
The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star, or
~ Joe Hill
Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.
~ Joe Slovo
Taking a chance, he went to the bathroom, grabbed his toothbrush, and crept down the stairs to the second floor. If caught, he would say he was just going to wash up before bed. And then he heard the door between the kitchen and the living room open. "What happened to Avi?" he heard his mother ask. "He left." "But I made you both some tea.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
Do you know that Albert Einstein expected to go to his grave keeping secret all that he knew about the atom? He pledged to himself that he would never reveal his knowledge to anyone, not because he didn't understand the great good that would come to the world through right use of the atom, but because he knew that in the wrong hands it would become destructive and produce evil results.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
When a man wants to know who lives in the apartment opposite, it's always a pretty girl," I said. "When a pretty girl wants to know, it's generally a man with field glasses. One of the most popular of New York sports.
~ Joel Townsley Rogers
What I like best about this is not seeing you naked, love," Marcus said. He began to massage the bar of soap in the washcloth, creating a rich lather. "Though you are quite beautiful. What I like is knowing Josh is kneeling here beside you and cannot see you.
~ Joey W. Hill
Nothing in human life is inherently private.
~ Terry Eagleton
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.
~ Mary Balogh
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
~ Imogen Cunningham
I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
~ Jean Harris
I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.
~ Rashida Jones
People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
~ Catherine Deneuve
I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.
~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
~ Fran Lebowitz