Quotes About Secrecy

Everyone thinks I'm one thing, but I'm other things, too; I'm behind a curtain; I'm living a lie.

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

It takes me less than a minute to pick a pin-tumbler lock, but in that minute, anyone could wander into the hallway and say, "Sky, are you picking the lock on your mother's office?" Dad. I swear I have the nosiest family of all time. First Charles, now Dad. Couldn't anyone just mind their own business while I skulked around suspiciously?

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

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.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

I'm glad the government has shut down. Think about it, for the first time in years it's safe to talk on the phone and send emails without anybody listening in.

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean, you have got to realize I've been on the run for more than 30 years. I have got to have had more than that.

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are.

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

They don't have any idea I work for the Population Police.

Raistlin no habló de ello con nadie; había aprendido muy pronto que el conocimiento era poder, sobre todo si era el secreto de otra persona.

Women should not let lovers read the books they write.