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Quotes About Secretive

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.
~ James Rollins
Go into the building, search out the Returned who lives in it, and run around in circles squeaking as loudly as you can. Don't let anybody catch you. Oh, and destroy as much furniture as you can.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
~ Taylor Hackford
I reject the notion that science is by its nature secretive. Its culture and ethos are, and for very good reason, collective, collaborative, and communicative.
~ Carl Sagan
Death was the twin brother of life and the more interesting of the two. It was secretive, unknown, mysterious. It was inevitable and forever when it came. It was a dark, infinitely chambered fortress waiting to be explored. Most entered only once and then only because they had no choice.
~ Terry Brooks
You're grumpy and broody and secretive all the time. You're no joy to live with, I can tell you that!" "I smile sometimes. I even laughed about your . . . hat." "MacHalo," I corrected tightly. "It's a brilliant invention, and it means I don't need you or V'lane to keep my safe from Shades, and that, Jericho Barrons, is worth its weight in gold: not needing either of you for something!
~ Karen Marie Moning
I am going to be on 'True Blood.' It was really exciting. I had a great time shooting it. I spent the last nine months shooting this season and it was very secretive, very sexy, a lot of blood and fangs.
~ Scott Foley
The Malazan engineers are a unique breed. Cantankerous, foul-mouthed, derisive of authority, secretive and thick-headed. They are the heartstone of the Malazan Army… THE IMPERIAL MILITARY SENJALLE
~ Steven Erikson
We others are not like you. We are more prickly, more jittery, more restless, more secretive, more desperate, more cowardly, more bold. We live at the edges of ourselves, not in the middle places. We leave that to you.
~ Steven Millhauser
She seemed to become more aloof, almost secretive. At times, her eyes would shine with a private passion. She would gaze off into the distance and her lips would drop open, very slightly.
~ Storm Constantine
She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth.
~ Carson McCullers
He's a monster. I think of him as one of those pitiful things that are born in hospitals from time to time. They feed it, and keep it warm, but they don't put it on the machines and it dies. Lecter is the same way in his head, but he looks normal and nobody could tell.
~ Thomas Harris
Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.
~ Lara Logan
LOUISIANA IN SEPTEMBER was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air—moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh—felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.
~ Tom Robbins
A lot of people say I am very mysterious. It takes a lot to know me.
~ Ileana D'Cruz
My soul is the gods'; my heart is yours. Leiard smiled—a sly, secretive smile. It was an expression she had never seen him wear before. Was this just her mind embellishing the mood she sensed from him? I've always suspected souls were a concept the gods invented to encourage people to serve them. In fact, I once had a conversation with a god in which he admitted that —
~ Trudi Canavan
discreetly flashed its lights.
~ Val McDermid
he's going there at the orders of Muhammad Nahas to meet someone.
~ Kyle Mills
Night shoots are great. They always feel quite mischievous and naughty because you're out working while everyone else is in bed.
~ Kelvin Fletcher
he was amazingly tight-lipped, even for a guy. He was guarded, taciturn, which was probably hell on anyone in a relationship with him.
~ Laura Griffin
There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages.
~ James K. Morrow
Plagueis had no need to delve any further into whatever traumas had given rise to Palpatine's cunning, secretive nature. He simply needed to know: Does this young human have the Force?
~ James Luceno
I was a pretty sheltered kid, a slow starter. I was pretty secretive with my passion for music and, I guess, my talent and what-not.
~ Raheem DeVaughn
I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.
~ Bob Ross