Quotes About Secrecy

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

It reminds me of a remark Lucien [Carr] once made to me: He said You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.

Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'... Page 100.

The tremendous secrecy of alleys between houses

Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.

Surveillant anxiety is always a conjoined twin: The anxiety of those surveilled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers. But the anxiety of the surveillers is generally hard to see; it's hidden in classified documents and delivered in highly coded languages in front of Senate committees.

A lot of the fun of 'Gravity Falls' comes from the secrecy surrounding the plot. We want fans to be able to guess and speculate, to be surprised by twists and be engaged when they get things right.

My friends found out that I was writing a book on Twitter. It didn't seem worth mentioning over dinner. They're all so successful themselves.

You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

I'm kinda secretive, and I can't even say secretive because of my son. He's the type, like, he doesn't let his friends know who his mom is or his stepdad. He doesn't like me going to his school. If he gets into trouble at school, he's, like, dying. He's very low-key with it. He's always been like that since he was born.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.

In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

In the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, there were many gay men who were unable to come out about the fact that their lovers were ill, A, and then dead, B. They were unable to get access to the hospital to see their lover, unable to call their parents and say, 'I have just lost the love of my life.'

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.

What are we doing, burying bodies?" Admittedly, this would be a lace to do it. Isolated, off any main roads."Nope. We're going to war.