There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

Anatomy lessons are much more fun when conducted in a private coed environment.

I was still alive. Ha! Take that kidnappers. Still alive. Maybe it was my butt that was feeding me. I always thought it was kind of round. I bet my body was eating up all...

I’ve probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

There’s always a high school jerk, isn’t there? But I didn’t date much in high school, because I went to an all-girls’ private school for ten years.

People think because you’re private, you have something you don’t want them to know.

Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

There are certain things I just don’t talk about – there are certain things that are private.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

My parents are private investigators for God’s sake.

I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don’t know how to get that out of the information that’s out there.

Would I put my daughter in a private all-girl school? No. Would I put her in a private co-ed school? Yes. Would I put her in the school I went to? No way.

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn’t embarrassed by it.

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

I’m invested in about 13 private companies. I’ve advised probably another 50 private companies.

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

If Congress doesn’t raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it’s done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can...

The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on...

I don’t talk about my private life.

Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time epidemic. For the stream of a narrative overflows the banks of the real....

It’s a very complicated issue, this fame thing – I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it’s difficult for a private person like myself.

I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

‘Entourage’ was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was...

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we’re shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It’s in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

I don’t have any stigma attached to my body. When I’m in my own private space, I have very little on.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Actually, I was the seventh private explorer but the first Canadian ‘space clown.’ I never dreamed of going into space; I just dreamed of traveling. But I admit that space is an incredible destination and...

I’ve built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

I don’t want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than...

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you’ll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

The big companies are the private industry. But they’re faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.