Be Secretive Quotes

#1. Jackson's? He wasn't being deliberately evasive or trying to be secretive, it wasn't in his nature.

George Donald

#2. He lies not because it's in his interest, he lies because it's in his nature." It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted.

Walter Isaacson

#3. I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.

Evan Davis

#4. People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, 'Can you do the Gollum voice for me?' And I'm like, 'Are you kidding? It's 8:30 in the morning on the Victoria Line.'

Andy Serkis

#5. Wizards are a secretive lot.

Patricia Briggs

#6. Whoever has received knowledge
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or secretive
but demonstrate it willingly.
When a great good is widely heard of,
then, and only then, does it bloom,
and when that good is praised by man,
it has spread its blossoms.

Marie De France

#7. Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.

Dave Davies

#8. Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.

Thomas Szasz

#9. It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.

Max Lucado

#10. Much ado was always made about secretive meetings.

Lorraine Heath

#11. He [Reed] had never overtly flirted with me; his way of showing me he cared was always subtle. Touching my hand. Meeting my eyes across a room. Playing my favorite songs when we were driving in his car. He was secretive about everything he did, including revealing emotion ...

Becca Fitzpatrick

#12. Whatever was in that document had caused the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. Who'd be next? Calvi shuddered. His life's work was safe-guarding this document. Whatever its purpose or mystery, it was his solemn and sole mission to protect it. Even if it meant giving up his life for it.

Peter J. Tanous

#13. Love isn't secretive or one-sided." "It isn't," he said fiercely. "Then tell me." He kissed her forehead. "Je t'aim.

Sylvain Reynard

#14. He headed back for the door, and a smile so quick and secretive passed between him and Iko that Cinder almost missed it. Iko didn't take her gaze from him until he was gone.

Marissa Meyer

#15. Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.

Les Miserables

#16. Sex only makes people more like themselves. A powerful, secretive woman becomes only more powerful and more secretive in the throes of passion.

Bee Ridgway

#17. We others are not like you. We are more prickly, more jittery, more restless, more secretive, more desperate, more cowardly, more bold. We live at the edges of ourselves, not in the middle places. We leave that to you.

Steven Millhauser

#18. I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.

Donald Miller

#19. I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.

George R R Martin

#20. Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

Lynne Truss

#21. There are lots of gay and lesbian actors who are very secretive about their sexuality. Things leak out, but you never know for sure. Maybe the nineties will change some of that.

Ellen Hart

#22. He was secretive, bossy, and regularly insufferable. He had also saved my life a couple of times. And he looked really good in my kitchen.

Kalayna Price

#23. People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

John Le Carre

#24. it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.

Margaret Atwood

#25. I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.
I know too much to be good. I know myself.
I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

Margaret Atwood

#26. To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Gwen John

#27. I am going to be on 'True Blood.' It was really exciting. I had a great time shooting it. I spent the last nine months shooting this season and it was very secretive, very sexy, a lot of blood and fangs.

Scott Foley

#28. A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

Elbert Hubbard

#29. There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.

Margaret Atwood

#30. Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G.K. Chesterton

#31. We're [with Ilana Glazer] both totally upfront and proud feminists. We're not being all secretive about it. I feel like we're pretty blatant in our approach.

Ilana Glazer

#32. The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

Bernie Sanders

#33. Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

Caroline Knapp

#34. You could always call her secretive, masking her feelings beautifully lest anyone intrude into her inmost realm of hidden thoughts. It was a defense Urmila had evolved since childhood.

Kavita Kane

#35. It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey I had that same idea.' I'm very secretive with my music. We have to send emails password protected. Because once that song gets out, you aren't selling that thing.

Ester Dean

#36. I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.

Sarah Dessen

#37. Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

Jonathan Lynn

#38. Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

Dahlia Lithwick

#39. I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Taylor Swift

#40. I'm not a secretive guy. I'm talkative.

David Lagercrantz

#41. We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#42. He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

David Benioff

#43. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.

Simona Panova

#44. The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned her about us, the look seemed to say.That we would hurt her, break her as you might break a twig between your fingers. But you, who thought you could not be touched - you are the one who has been broken.

Cassandra Clare

#45. The diamond business has always been secretive.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#46. There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood.

J.K. Rowling

#47. Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want me to know why ... What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them.

Whitley Strieber

#48. Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years ...

J. Ruth Gendler

#49. He had spent much of his childhood perched on the coast, with the taste of salt in the air: this was a place of woodland and river, mysterious and secretive in a different way from St. Mawes, the little town with its long smuggling history, where colorful houses tumbled down to the beach.

Robert Galbraith

#50. Yes is too obvious,may be always incubates curiosity

Pushpa Rana

#51. Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.

Ian Kershaw

#52. Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted- every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us.

Nadia Hashimi

#53. A shade slinks over me and I'm caught off guard when he leans down, placing a blossom in my cleavage, his face shadowed and secretive.

Poppet

#54. He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

Anne Rice

#55. It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.

Fern Britton

#56. You are precious" I insisted. "Stubborn and secretive and independent to a fault, but precious.

Alyxandra Harvey

#57. Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

Leonard Michaels

#58. I sometimes think I know you entirely," I said. "You know me better than anyone ever has," Susan said. "And yet you're quite secretive," I said. "You surprise me often.

Robert B. Parker

#59. (for the deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it).

Kai Ashante Wilson

#60. He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.

Anthony Powell

#61. Well, they've come a long way. To think that he now could access a secret document held in the Vatican archives, via electronic technology.

Peter J. Tanous

#62. I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting ... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

Andrew Wyeth

#63. I love sexy, intelligent women. Sexiness is hard to define. Of course a woman can be beautiful, but I think it's something in the eyes. It's a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that's almost animalistic.

Ellen Von Unwerth

#64. Our people believe in God, don't they? And they also do secretive acts, don't they? How can you keep a secret from God [the absolute supreme self within us] that knows all your actions? If you want to realize God, then you cannot do secret acts.

Dada Bhagwan

#65. I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Andrew Scott

#66. We've been to secretive, perhaps. For long periods in our shared history, that was a necessity born from conflict. But it is not, I am prepared to accept, a style of living compatible with the modern age. It is difficult to maintain trust that way. Even among friends.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#67. Highly secretive, L'Occhio di Dio is an elite group of assassins with only one goal - the total destruction of all Prodigium.
"Well, that's nice," I murmured to myself.

Rachel Hawkins

#68. Quantitative easing is just the latest chapter in the Federal Reserve's hundred-year history of failure. ( ... ) The American people have suffered long enough under a monetary policy controlled by an unaccountable, secretive central bank. It is time to finally audit - and then end - the Fed.

Ron Paul

#69. Lex was about to ask what in the dickens that was supposed to mean, but then Uncle Mort nodded at Wicket in a secretive manner, which roughly translated as 'Screw you and your curiosities, Lex. We're telling you NOTHING.

Gina Damico

#70. Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

Abbas Kiarostami

#71. I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.

Floyd Abrams

#72. Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive way. They try to be more than human (perfect and controlling) or less than human (losing interest in life or stagnated in some addictive behavior).

John Bradshaw

#73. For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

Adam Mansbach

#74. Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.

Tom Robbins