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Quotes About Secrets

I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
~ Jack W. Szostak
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
~ Anthony Hecht
Even the most liberal reporters I know have a sense of drive and curiosity about what the Clintons are hiding, because they know it's always something.
~ Rick Wilson
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
~ David Copperfield
Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
~ Chaz Bono
I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.
~ Ayelet Waldman
We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.
~ Lauren London
Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
~ Liane Moriarty
I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.
~ Jane Green
I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.
~ Ann Nocenti
Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.
~ Drew Pinsky
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
~ Gillian Flynn
I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!
~ Moon Unit Zappa
The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.
~ Graham Nelson
Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
~ George Michael
'Sinskari' is an adult chat show, which will include questions about their deep dark secrets. Some dialogues may have to be beeped out.
~ Alok Nath
I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.
~ Janet Jackson
The Night Managers.
~ Bentley Little
Even though Anne was almost ten years younger than I was, at times I almost had the inclination to tell her things that were very private. I know that she valued hearing about such intimacies. She asked me very personal questions on a number of occasions. I resisted telling her everything because I knew she was keeping a diary and I didn't want her to write about personal matters, which I might have revealed.
~ Bep Voskuijl
Al secondo appuntamento Fulvia gli disse che scriveva benissimo. «Sono... discreto». «Meravigliosamente, ti dico. Sai che farò la prima volta che andrò a Torino? Comprerò un cofanetto per conservarci le tue lettere. Le conserverò tutte e mai nessuno le vedrà. Forse le mie nipoti, quando avranno questa mia età». E lui non poté dir niente, oppresso dall'ombra della terribile possibilità che le nipoti di Fulvia non fossero anche le sue.
~ Beppe Fenoglio
Only secrets can be conquered'- most of all the secrets that lie within ourselves.
~ Bernadette McDonald
She likes to walk barefoot inside the house, even in winter It's one of the secretes of her long-lasting mobility, keeping her toes spread and feet grounded, same as all the other beasts of nature Hooves, that's what she's got hooves
~ Bernardine Evaristo
it's one of the secrets of her long-lasting mobility, keeping her toes spread and feet grounded, same as all the other beasts of nature
~ Bernardine Evaristo
The Ballad of Mac the Knife Fair in Soho. The beggars are begging, the thieves are stealing, the whores are whoring. A ballad singer sings a ballad. See the shark with teeth like razors. All can read his open face. And Macheath has got a knife, but Not in such an obvious place. See the shark, how red his fins are As he slashes at his prey. Mac the Knife wears white kid gloves which Give the minimum away.
~ Bertolt Brecht