Quotes of: Private-life Keyword

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

John McGahern

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

Cynthia McKinney

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.

Howard Gossage

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

Wole Soyinka

I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

Mila Kunis

[upon landing on beach] Private Flanagan: Come on out, you dirty slobs! Flanagan's back!

The Longest Day

If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don't get bodyguards or alarm systems.

Mark Fuhrman

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Samuel Butler

I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.

Thom Mayne

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Mary Douglas

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

Milton Babbitt

I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it.

Sufjan Stevens

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

Lena Dunham

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

Alexander Dubcek

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

Barbara Castle

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

Carolina Herrera

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

Billy Graham

With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.

David Duffield

All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.

Terry Wogan

That which we want less of in society should rarely be privatized and that which we want more of often should be.

William MacGregor Robson

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

Karin Slaughter