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Quotes About Secrecy

I wrote and recorded a song that I highly doubt I will release. The lyrics are somewhat risque. I may have to create an alter ego, and she can be the 'singer.'
~ Erika Christensen
My father was a preacher so I wouldn't sing at all when he was around, but as soon as he locked the door, 'La la la.'
~ John Witherspoon
My celebrity crush is not gonna find out who my celebrity crush is anytime soon. I'm so nervous! I may keep that to myself because if I do meet her and she already knows about it, that could be awkward.
~ Hunter Hayes
I am actually a soprano. No one knows this.
~ Donna Lynne Champlin
Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.
~ Noah Feldman
I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?
~ Eric San
Because people don't see me around a lot, I'm the source of all sorts of rumour.
~ Michael Cimino
I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.
~ John O. Brennan
I don't name sources.
~ Nelson DeMille
I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.
~ Theresa May
I remember me and my brother would watch 'Beavis and Butthead' or 'South Park,' but we'd be all secret about it because we didn't want our dad to know. And then before I know it, I'm in fourth grade and me, my brother, and my dad are watching 'South Park' together.
~ Sean Evans
The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man, always a KGB man.
~ Masha Gessen
The Soviet State had never made radiation something that was publicized in any way, shape, or form. In fact, the Soviet Union had experienced a number of serious accidents involving radiation since the 1950s and had covered it up a number of times.
~ Craig Mazin
Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think it's pretty easy to see that if you create spaces that are essentially outside the law, then you're creating spaces where anything can happen.
~ Trevor Paglen
hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing
~ Shujoy Chowdhury
If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.
~ Cassandra Clare
You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely that they were being unfaithful in some way.
~ Steven Magee
Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the secrecy in the hidden brushwood of our emotions. ("Alpha and Omega")
~ Erik Pevernagie
Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.
~ Krista Ritchie, Ricochet
She wore her pain like lingerie, only who loved her enough, got to see it.
~ Himanshu Chhabra
the wealthiest are to be found among those less suspected to be wealthy.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Actually, wouldn't it be better if the length of movies were kept a secret?
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl! whispered her mother. We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne