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Quotes About Secrecy

Inside the walls
~ Justin Cronin
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
~ K.J. Parker
Remarkable how often there's a good reason that masks the real reason.
~ K.J. Parker
If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?
~ K.J. Parker
Oppenheimer argued that concealing information about the bomb increased the danger of misunderstandings
~ Kai Bird
They paid more to tap my phone than they paid me to run the Los Alamos Project
~ Kai Bird
i shall see you soon, my love. Be strong, and do not hate me for being so cold. they must not see that i love you or it would mean sure death to both of us
~ Kailin Gow
Every Fader has the key," Jack assures me, and puts his finger in the key hole. I realize then that it must be one of the fancy biometric locks the Faders love so much. "The key hole is just in case someone wanders in by accident. They just think it's an old storage room, or a mine, or something. They don't see the level of technology that's here.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
There's a temple to a dark god or some such in the basement. I'll be there." "Ah, yes…that can happen if one doesn't keep an eye on the drains…
~ Kaja Foglio
Hide yourself under a bushel quickly, for if your real usefulness were known to the world you would soon be knocked down to the highest bidder by the public auctioneer.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
I'm driving at the fact that habits of secrecy are damaging things," Hira said in her most professorial voice. "And they underestimate other people's willingness to accept the complicated truths of your life.
~ Kamila Shamsie
You can read this diagonal script, can't you? Any man could. It says, "Stay away. This isn't what you want.
~ Kamila Shamsie
secret services arrived, I was fed up. I said, Enough already! I want my life back!
~ Kapka Kassabova
sealed zinc coffins, like the fallen Russian soldiers in Afghanistan – so that no one would know how they had really died.
~ Kapka Kassabova
I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.
~ Portia de Rossi
I don't give interviews.
~ Beny Steinmetz
It's very, very difficult because we're living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you've really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.
~ Christian Slater
Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
~ Filippo Brunelleschi
It should not take award-winning investigators to find out how this government operates.
~ Mike Quigley
There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want their industry publicised.
~ Heather Brooke
I don't like to discuss my investments.
~ Offset
When you've got a mask on, you're kind of invincible. It's almost like nobody can see you, and you can do what you want to do without consequences.
~ Jim Root
I wouldn't like to be invisible for a day. But if I was... I'd probably be up to no good.
~ Luol Deng
I wish someone would discover a way to become invisible.
~ Shamita Shetty