I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.
I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.
I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.
I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key, Dad’s creations made me feel scared and small. I saw a private part of the man I could not measure up to. At si...
The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, an...
Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in front. Travel down it at furious speed though the days are mummified in lead. It happens so fast once you get started, there’s no anchor from the r...
He wants her in his bedroom. And not in that way — no girl has ever been in his bedroom that way. It is his private space, his sanctuary. But he wants Clary there. He wants her to see him, the reality of him, not the image he shows the world. He wa...
Marriage is a very strange thing. It’s a very public institution, it’s meant to tell the world that two people are going to live together, to declare that their children will be legal, that these children can inherit their property. It’s meant ...
The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion and chaos, are in fact defending their political prestige and the economic interests arising from...
Nick Naylor: Most people have this image in their heads of tobacco executives jet-setting around the world on private planes, eating foie gras as they count their money. Not me. I like to ride with the people. Know your clients. My people cram themse...
A book is as private and consensual as sex.
We would never comment on private correspondence.
I think part of being an actor is staying private.
Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.
I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
