Quotes tagged ‘Privacy’

“We’re not going to traffic in your personal life. Privacy to us is a human right, a civil liberty.”

— Tim Cook, theguardian.com

“What makes Facebook think the world is becoming more public and less private?”

— Marshall Kirkpatrick, archive.nytimes.com

“You know what’s the biggest luxury? Pooping when no one’s home.”

— Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Abbi Abrams, Abbi Jacobson, imdb.com

“Look, you're my brother. And I'd die for you. But there are some things I need to keep to myself.”

— Ron Milbauer, Terri Hughes, Sam Winchester, Jared Padalecki, imdb.com

“Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to watch someone? To invade someone's privacy? Do you wonder what secrets you might uncover? What skeletons you might turn up? Well, for the next one, you are about to find out.”

— Thomas Higgins, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com

“I want to avoid everything that is personal and I want it understood that I am grandson of nobody.”

— Benjamin Harrison, presidential-power.org

“Think about it, every purchase you've ever made, every picture you've ever shared, your messages, your comments. All these facts that are etched in this thing, this network, and barring some catastrophic failure, they'll follow you I mean, follow us wherever we go, even after we die.”

— Zander Lehmann, Alex Cole, Tommy Dewey, imdb.com

“I’m much more interested in the process of life; the celebrity side of it, I couldn’t give a sausage.”

— David Bowie, amazon.com

“I will never understand the bathrooms in this country. Why is it that the doors on the stalls do not come all the way down to the floor?”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“You know your whole life you go through painstaking efforts to hide your nipple and then BOOM, suddenly hundreds of people get their own personal shot of it.”

— Larry David, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com

“I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: Kindly, discreet, unattractive. We didn't know anything about her private life. We didn't WANT to know anything about her private life. She didn't HAVE a private life.”

— Larry Charles, Lieutenant Bookman, the "Library Cop", Philip Baker Hall, imdb.com

“I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I'm with you I have this sense that you want something from me.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“It was always that way for me. After I opened myself to someone, I needed a few minutes to close down again, to restore my sense of privacy.”

— Dia Reeves, amazon.com

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”

— John Milton, amazon.com

“What’s done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don’t talk about it.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

“I’m a private person in many ways.”

— Peter Dinklage, ew.com

“This is my heart. You can’t just come here, and take it.”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.com

“Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there’s no difference between what is and what could be.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?”

— Charles Lindbergh, amazon.com