Secret Quotes

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

What’s in that backpack, by the way? You’re always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. (Tory) Dirty underwear. (Acheron)

Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

Secrets she'll take to the grave and secrets she's dying to share.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

We know the secret police's methods, and the way the archive and registry were run - that's how we know. We've also found evidence from the Bolek file cited in other files.

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

Life is given to each human being For a very special purpose. This secret each human being Must discover for himself.

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour. To hope is to know the secret of achievement.

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.

A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

I had a secret that I was bound to protect but a secret that i was not to share. A secert that suddenly he knew all about.

it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.

The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.

Avoid secret's! Be open about which you are. It takes too much energy to hide in the closet about any issue.

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.

You cannot be a secret and be profitable.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.

The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

Up above Aliens hover Making home movies For the folks back home Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets.

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.