Quotes About Secrets

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

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.

I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as "natural" (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much more interesting: how much more complex, dressed in the intricacies and exfoliations of human culture, simple patterns iterated into infinite variation. And full of secrets, beyond counting.

I realized in 1988 that my life as a spy specializing in secrets was not only unproductive, it was in sharp opposition to what we actually need: full access to true information, and consequently, the ability to create Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).

told you, Charlie, the FSB is a more refined version of the KGB.

You'll get tangles." Abby Crosswhite ran the brush through Tracy's hair, and she relaxed at the feel of bristles tickling her scalp. "I didn't read your diary. That was a mother's intuition. Nice admission of guilt, however. The next time Jack Frates comes over, tell him your

It was a convulsion of obscenity, a spasm of lasciviousness – an exudation of secret hungers framed by compulsion: desire without pleasure, pain mated awfully to lust. It was like watching a soul stripped naked, and all its dark and unmentionable secrets laid bare.

Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over.

But he was her best friend. This admission, held at bay for so long, caused an almost painful twist in Robin's heart, not least because she knew it would be impossible ever to tell Strike so.

For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He could remember exactly what it felt like to have his arm around her waist as they had meandered towards Hazlitt's Hotel. She was tall enough to hold easily. He had never fancied very small women. Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he known how much Strike had liked it.

They might have something else.

from which secret meetings with enemies are born".

Sweet is the swamp with its secrets, Until we meet a snake… Emily Dickinson XIX: A Snake

He learned and heard many things about the San Francisco Fire Department from powerful people who forgot he was present—including a lot of dirt—that helped him become an effective leader in a long battle against discrimination in the department.

Talisman, Talisman, show me your secrets, Helmsman, Helmsman, turn me for home.

no secrets, no mystery. no mystery, no life worth rememberin'. no life worth rememberin', no life worth goin' on.

Espionage is an effort to find windows into men's souls.

Went with one (Assassin) for a while... lovely lass, but she couldn't keep her mouth shut, even in bed. Sometimes I wonder if any profession really guards its secrets as closely as they claim.

Robert Masello

You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ....

Aristotle wrote The Poetics, the "secrets" of story have been as public as the library down the street. Nothing in the craft of storytelling is abstruse. In fact, at first glance telling story for the screen looks deceptively easy. But moving closer and closer to the center, trying scene by scene to make the story work, the task becomes increasingly difficult, as we realize that on the screen there's no place to hide.

There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell.