Quotes About Secrecy

Siempre he sentido una repugnancia casi física por las cosas secretas, las intrigas, la diplomacia, las sociedades secretas, el ocultismo. Sobre todo siempre me han molestado estas dos últimas cosas: la pretensión que tienen ciertos hombres de saber, mediante un entendimiento con dioses o maestros o Demiurgos –entre ellos, excluidos todos nosotros–, los grandes secretos que son los fundamentos del mundo.

the uncensorable power of the simplest form of private literature: the letter home.

Who is Fox?, I asked. Policeman Fox is the third of us, said the Sergeant, but we never see him or hear tell of him at because he is always on his beat and never off it and he signs the book in the middle of the night when even a badger is asleep. He is as mad as a hare, he never interrogates the public and he is always taking notes.

The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.

People are a lot less likely to think that their family member is part of the government conspiracy.

We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

When I first started blogging, I kept it a secret from my friends and then started to show a few people, and it snowballed from there.

I don't think anyone can really claim to be a really close friend of Amitabh Bachchan. There are so many things people don't know, even I don't know. He has a few people who are close and he likes it that way.

There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.

Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.

We don't want our government building files on what people think about their government.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

A lot of people think that I and Debina met while filming for 'Ramayan,' and then we got married in 2011. Very few know that when we were nothing, we weren't actors, we were only looking for work - we were just 19 and 20 years old, we eloped and got married, in 2006. We did not tell our parents.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

George was adamant his sexuality should be kept under wraps, which created a wholly unwelcome extra level of stress for him to manage.

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.