Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

Curtis Sittenfeld

She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold – I wanted my life to start – but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

Cyndi Lauper

Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time

David Byrne

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

David Levithan

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

this was about as secret as you could get.

Kurt Vonnegut

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

Erin Morgenstern

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

Cassandra Clare

In a closed urban fantasy, the magical world is secret and no one knows about it. In an open urban fantasy, everyone knows about it. So with a closed fantasy, you have to figure out how the world keeps itself secret, and with an open one, you have to figure out how knowledge of magic has altered the world we know.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I have a secret love of jazz.

Anthony Trollope

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

Moby

My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

Kenneth Tynan

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

Kathleen Norris

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

Mary McCarthy

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

Nicholas Sparks

Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed

Nicholas Sparks

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

Iris Murdoch

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

Idries Shah

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

Gregory Maguire

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

Gloria Vanderbilt

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

J. K. Rowling

Oh, get out of the way, Percy,” said Fred. “Harry’s in a hurry.” “Yeah, he’s off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant,” said George, chortling.

J. K. Rowling

Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!

H. L. Mencken

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

Mary Harron

One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.

Mark Haddon

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

Oswald Chambers

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

Julia Quinn

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

Naomi Judd

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

Publilius Syrus

There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.

Prem Rawat

When I was born, God existed. But I never knew Him. I just never knew Him until Guru Maharaj Ji came into my life, till Guru Maharaj Ji came in my way, and showed me and revealed me that secret. And the day he did that, there it was, I knew God.

Noam Chomsky

Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like the characteristics of your latest fighter plane or something like that.