Quotes About Secrets

You can't know people that well, man. Everybody's got a private room.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

I was still struggling to invent an alternate version of myself, someone proud and unflinching who could gaze levelly at his father and tell him his last secrets. I wanted him to know me; to have seen me. I'd been waiting until I was settled and fulfilled, so as to present myself in terms of a happiness he might understand.

Permanecí en silencio. No quería decirle que aquello era una práctica común. No quería contarle que en el mundo de los negocios los secretos son dinero, que el miedo es una arma, que el conocimiento es poder.

When you avoid talking about one conspicuous thing in a family, soon you stop talking about any conspicuous things in the family. It's like a form of rot.

Never ask questions if you might not want to know the answers, lest you are pulled into those stories and the truths they reveal. Sometimes ignorance is better. It would probably not be so popular otherwise.

It's not true that everyone wants to confess a crime, but most people do want to tell something of their story, to stop hiding for just a while.

No mother and daughter in Perdido were closer than Mary Love Caskey and Sister. But it was not to be supposed that either told the other everything she thought or knew. In fact, each of them liked to keep little secrets from the other. Secrets which could be sprung at some opportune moment to produce a grand effect, rather in the manner of a little boy tossing lighted firecrackers beneath his sister's bed while she napped on a hot summer afternoon.

Secrets turn powerless in the open air.

In 1942 the Germans sent a spy called Eppler into Cairo before the battle of El Alamein. He used a copy of Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca as a code book to send messages back to Rommel on troop movements. Listen, the book became bedside reading with British Intelligence. Even I read it.

parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.

In nearly every house, in nearly every family, there was knowledge of someone's murder or abduction by one side or another

Humboldt believed it is only with our feelings, our senses, and our imaginations—that is, with the faculties of human subjectivity—that we can ever penetrate nature's secrets. "Nature everywhere speaks to man in a voice" that is "familiar to his soul.

It's so easy to play us guys that I hate to give away secrets to women because I know they'll use them. But OK, if you just simply don't give a guy the time of day, every once in awhile, it just makes us more like 'What do we do?' Men are developed to conquer. When we can't seem to conquer, we stay in it no matter what.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

I was lucky enough to be raised by a man of great integrity and rectitude. That said, he was also human and had his secret sins, as we all do.

I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

My parents were mourning the death of my sister. She was killed in a car accident before I was born, and I didn't know she existed until I was 13 or 14 years old. I knew I was growing up in a house where people were angry and sad.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.

You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.

If I were to run for office, my skeletons would come dancing out of the closet in a can-can.