Quotes About Secrecy

Nothing is ever what it seems and not everything is yours to see.

todo cidadão, ao falar ao telefone, tem que ter a presunção de que alguém está escutando

at half eleven in the evening. You will receive further instructions there.

This fact has never been published anywhere, and apart from my father I alone knew anything about it.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

You can't tell your teacher that my name is James Witherspoon. Atlanta ain't nothing but a country town, and everyone knows everybody. Your other wife and your other girl is a secret?, I asked him. He put me down from his lap, so we could look each other in the face. No. You've got it the wrong way around. Dana you are the one that's a secret.

But I lived in a world where you could never want what you wanted out in the open.

When he hipped me to Go Tell It on the Mountain, he didn't say one word about Jimmy being a homosexual.

So i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine.

Well. Here's the thing. The beautiful minds out at Bletchley Park cracked the code on that one.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

I make the best Spanish omelettes in the world, but I won't tell you the recipe!

American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested in exploring those 'geographies' of secrecy from many different angles: political, legal, economic, spatial, etc., because I am fundamentally just interested in how the world works and how societies work.

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.

It's called a private life for a reason - it's mine, and it's special and sacred.

Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.

Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.

My family has always been private about our time spent together.

He can't have any friends and maintain his secret identity as Spider-Man. He can't even have a normal sex life. He's a national hero, yet he's a recluse. He's instantly recognized by the public, but he cant tell anyone who he is.

One of my least favorite things is having my full name called out at the pharmacy. I always try to cut them off before they can say 'Spielberg.'