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Quotes About Secret

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
~ Conrad Veidt
It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.
~ Cheryl Hayashi
The secret of a happy life isn't buried in a treasure chest... it lies within your heart.
~ Unknown
The Secret of Creation attributed to Apollonius. Jabir (or Geber) himself, in giving the text of the Emerald Table states that he is quoting Apollonius. Now, Kraus has shown that The Secret of Creation was written, at least in its final edition, during the Caliphate of al-Ma'mun (813-833),
~ Valentin Tomberg
No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret Temple from prying eyes, somewhere in its heart of hearts, is but a decoy for the masses who need this simple concrete limited thing in their lives. The real Temple is the whole world, and there is nothing as divinely blessed as a blooming growing garden.
~ Vera Nazarian
His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
~ Veronica Roth
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
~ William Wordsworth
Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
~ Rumi
The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
~ Josephine Baker
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
~ Christopher Morley
Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
~ Coco Chanel
Time is the best kept secret of the rich.
~ Jim Rohn
Northern Ireland is the world's best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.
~ Liam Neeson
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
~ Peter Thiel
Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America
~ Todd Park
I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard
~ Richard Brautigan
Here is another secret: I have no business being fascinated by you.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I loathe the happiness of all these people who don't know they're unhappy.
~ Unknown
I screamed, which means I can't tell you the actual words.
~ Peter Lerangis
In this very breath that we now take Lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
~ Peter Matthiessen
It seemed that if you listened to that snow hissing long enough, you wouldn't just hear it telling you that it was waiting for you, you'd hear some terrible secret—a secret to turn your life black.
~ Peter Straub
He started keeping a journal — had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.
~ Philip K. Dick
It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that's what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart. I like to see them unglued, and I like to see how how the characters in the novel cope with this problem. I have a scret love of chaos. There should be more of it.
~ Philip K. Dick
Had reason ever created a poem, or a symphony, or a painting? If rationality can't see things like the secret commonwealth, it's because rationality's vision is limited. The secret commonwealth is there. We can't see it with rationality any more than we can weigh something with a microscope: it's the wrong sort of instrument. We need to imagine as well as measure ...
~ Philip Pullman