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Quotes About Secret

I just keep making the same mistake," she said. "I go to a party and I kiss some guy who I would never think of kissing at school. Guys I don't even really like. It's as though out here, in the woods, they're going to reveal some secret side of themselves. But they're always just the same.
~ Holly Black
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.
~ Homer Simpson
In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods.
~ Unknown
He could find hatred in his heart for her, too, if he went looking for it. The secret of a happy marriage was not to go looking for it.
~ Liane Moriarty
It was her only real secret, so it was a pity it wasn't juicier.
~ Liane Moriarty
Renata and Harper attended the same weekly support group for parents of gifted children. Madeline imagined them all sitting in a circle, wringing their hands while their eyes shone with secret pride.
~ Liane Moriarty
They were sitting on the couch chatting politely with me, not touching, or so it seemed, except that I happened to glance down and I saw that their hands were lying next to each other on the couch, and that Nick was caressing Alice's little finger with his own. I remember being shocked by a feeling of pure envy. I wanted to be Alice, young and lovely, feeling the secret caress of a handsome boy's fingertip.
~ Liane Moriarty
It was all because of the Berlin Wall. If it weren't for the Berlin Wall, Cecilia would never have found the letter, and then she wouldn't be sitting here, at the kitchen table, willing herself not to rip it open.
~ Liane Moriarty
It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
~ Unknown
As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
~ Otto Wallach
I have a show on MTV called 'Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous.' I think that's a secret to a vast majority of America.
~ Bo Burnham
I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar.
~ Alan Moore
Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
~ Henry Van Dyke
And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Of what? Wasn't he my very own brother? Shouldn't that cover over everything else in a blanket of sanctimony? Surely I could trust him—but with everything? With my secret identity, my Fortress of Solitude—and even Lily Anne, my Kryptonite?
~ Jeff Lindsay
It had to do with Leonard. With how she felt about him and how she couldn't tell anyone. With how much she liked him and how little she knew about him. With how desperately she wanted to see him and how hard it was to do so.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ? Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow . (Mondial October 19, 2005) Originally published 1886.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
So,' I said, 'when does the enchantment start?' 'It started when the earth was born.'...'It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.' 'So what do we do?' She smiled. 'That's the secret.'...'We do nothing. Or as close to nothing as we can.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.
~ Jerry Stahl
I didn't really want to patent it because, for one, I don't like software patents, and, two, if you patent it, you make it public. Even if you don't know someone's infringing, they will still be getting the benefit. Instead, we just chose to keep it a trade secret and not show it to anyone.
~ Jessica Livingston
During the first months in Rome, my clandestine Italian diary is the only thing that consoles me, that gives me stability. Often, awake and restless in the middle of the night, I go to the desk to compose some paragraphs in Italian. It's an absolutely secret project. No one suspects, no one knows. I don't recognize the person who is writing in this diary, in this new, approximate language. But I know that it's the most genuine, most vulnerable part of me.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.
~ Mark Millar
Interested in some 'undercover' work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
To live an effective life, you must understand the essence and secret of life
~ Sunday Adelaja