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Quotes About Secrets

I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.
~ Loudon Wainwright III
My older brothers always collected comics and read them. When we were little, Robin and I would sneak into their room and take them and read them.
~ Brook Lopez
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
~ Joyce Maynard
When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes afraid to tell too much. She was afraid he would know her too well, that he would find some weakness in her, some element that would turn him away, maybe even a quality she didn't even realize she possessed.
~ Michael Stein
Doveva trovarsi sopra gli scavi archeologici, pensò. Un ottavo di miglio quadrato che era stato ancorato nella roccia sottostante con degli stabilizzatori dopo aver sepolto nel suo cuore almeno tre segnalatori di navigazione sigillati per impedire che la terra, in una nuova epoca, nascondesse di nuovo il tutto.
~ Michael Swanwick
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
~ Michel Foucault
Many things that I would not care to tell to any individual man I tell to the public, and for knowledge of my most secret thoughts I refer my most loyal friends to a bookseller's stall.
~ Michel Montaigne
Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationships, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life.
~ Michio Kaku
Así, la unificación de las leyes de la mecánica cuántica no solo revelaba los secretos del universo, sino que también unificaba el árbol de la vida.
~ Michio Kaku
Throughout world history, the greatest killers have not been wars but plagues and epidemics. Unfortunately, it is possible that nations have kept secret stockpiles of deadly diseases, such as smallpox, which could be weaponized using biotechnology to create havoc.
~ Michio Kaku
When I was a girl, I heard stories about Vulcans who could touch minds," she said. "Is it true?" "Yes," he said, revealing his people's most closely guarded secret, one for which entire species—such as the Betazoids and the Ullians—had been all but exterminated.
~ Mike Sussman
All the words he used in the beginning were gutter words. He heard them and stored them in his brain. Now, as I walk in the street, I look at dogs with secret horror. WHo knows what is hidden in their heads?
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
If you were to ask certain of your great-great-great-grandmothers, especially those who had a reputation for shyness, they might tell you some remarkable secrets, my dear Margarita Nikolayevna! To draw a parallel—the most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough. There are some matters in which even class barriers and frontiers are powerless.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake
~ Milan Kundera
Ése es uno de los curiosos secretos de la vida, el de que los inocentes cargan con la culpa en lugar de los culpables.
~ Milan Kundera
Kanalizacione cevi koje svojim ograncima dopiru do naših stanova brižljivo su skrivene od našeg pogleda, i mi ne znamo ništa o nevidljivoj Veneciji govana iznad koje su podignuta naša kupatila, spava?e sobe, plesne dvorane i parlamenti.
~ Milan Kundera
Infatti non ignorava questo grande segreto della vita: le donne non cercano gli uomini belli. Le donne cercano gli uomini che hanno avuto donne belle.
~ Milan Kundera
The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
~ Paul Monette
Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust.
~ Pauline Holdstock
Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A
~ Sara Shepard
I love books about dysfunctional families.
~ Sara Shepard
Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.
~ Taryn Manning
I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.
~ Anne Lamott
Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?
~ Anne Rice