I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine… — Horace Copy Share Image
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The secret of comedy is enjoying it. If you're not laughing, it's not going to be funny. — Sarah Alexander Copy Share Image
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about running and staying fit - both mentally and physically - and it's no secret that I love my Garmin… — Carly Pearce Copy Share Image
“Often there's a secret courage hidden in the pocket of our deepest fears saying, “Bring it on, motherfucker”.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the… — Herbert Bayard Swope Copy Share Image
I've been successfully wearing my TWA during the fashion month in September 2015, but also I felt like my third appearance at… — Maria Borges Copy Share Image
The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
We're going to be okay." Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality.… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone:… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do… — John Green Copy Share Image
This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-wor thy experience unfolding gracefully. This… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression… — Richard Kalvar Copy Share Image
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity — John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Copy Share Image
There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the… — Karisma Kapoor Copy Share Image
The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does,… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success.… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for NATO and his willingness to consider leaving it. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I could be writing the most boring text ever, but the minute you look over my shoulder, that text becomes TOP secret. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I have many times made public information that the government wanted to keep secret, information that the public has a right to… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it. — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
