Private life Quotes · Page 5

Kids lead a very private life.

— Maurice Sendak

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

— Karl Kraus

I've had my ups and downs in my private life.

— Novak Djokovic

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

— Harrison Ford

I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.

— Danielle Panabaker

Learn to keep your private life private, or they will make your life their entertainment.

— Anonymous

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

— Anonymous

My private life, my relationships are much, much more important than my career.

— Curt Smith

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

— Samuel Johnson

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

— Ashley Tisdale

The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.

— Amber Hollibaugh

I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don't enjoy their private life. It's a great…

— Andie MacDowell

I've always tried to protect my private life as much as possible, and that is the hardest part because that is what…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

I try to be available for the fans, but sometimes when I'm with my family, wife, and friends, I try to protect…

— Thomas Muller

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because…

— Brittany Murphy

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand…

— Willie Nelson

I don't think of me as, quote, 'coming out,' because I was never 'in.' I rarely, if ever, spoke about my private…

— Elvis Duran

“In private life she was not in the least what her calumniators would have wished her to be. She was very quiet,…

— Edith Sitwell

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when…

— David Gerrold

Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism…

— Timothy D. Snyder

First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, President George Washington was second to none in…

— Henry Lee III

I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of…

— Joan Jett

“The Private Life of the Brain (New York: John Wiley, 2000); John McCrone’s Going Inside: A Tour Round a Single Moment of…

— David Bodanis

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of…

— Butch Otter

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents.…

— Maurice Sendak

I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through…

— Jarvis Cocker

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like…

— Lily Collins

“You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. There are people who are unhappy about your success and…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Public life drives out private life. The more political our society becomes (in the broadest sense of ‘political’ — the obsessions, the…

— Saul Bellow

People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry…

— Rae Armantrout

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia…

— Elif Batuman

The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in…

— Jonathan Kozol

“Well, a man’s life is divided into two parts: there is his work and there is his own private life. Two small…

— Helen MacInnes

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a…

— John Gardner

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

— Imogen Cunningham

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

— Lily Collins

I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.

— Rahm Emanuel

I guess I'm dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life.

— Genesis P-Orridge

I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

— Harry Lloyd