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Quotes About Secrets

It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
~ Madchen Amick
During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.
~ Ken Jennings
After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.
~ Lynn Johnston
Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.
~ Ricky Jay
Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
~ John Perkins
My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets.
~ Shea Hembrey
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.
~ Rob Sheffield
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
~ Mary Schmich
As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is our relationship to history? What are we blind to? What evils are lurking under the smooth surface of the self? - through radical dislocations.
~ Laura van den Berg
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
~ Samuel Johnson
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
~ Justin Timberlake
People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
~ Jodi Picoult
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
~ Don DeLillo
People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.
~ Emily Blunt
All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.
~ Gayle Forman
Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.
~ George Farquhar
There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.
~ Michael Clarke
People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.
~ Ron Carlson
Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.
~ Sara Shepard
The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.
~ Thomas Powers
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
~ Ben Folds
People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.
~ George Carlin