I need to know how you did it.” “I did it,” said Sweeney…

“Hey, Sweeney,” said Shadow, breathless, “why are we fighting?” “For the joy of it,” said Sweeney, sober now, or at least, no longer visibly…

— Anonymous

Gay people in general, I think, like telling secrets because we have to hide a huge secret for the first half of our lives.…

— Sharon Needles

“It's like I'm carrying around this huge secret that I'm never supposed to tell. But since I don't remember just what I'm supposed to…

— Joan Frances Casey

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

— Joss Whedon

“There," he said. "That's a coin trick for you." Shadow, who had been watching closely, put his head on one side. "I need to…

— Neil Gaiman

As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who…

— Elizabeth Bowen

And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be…

— Ben Goldacre

Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a…

— John Waters

The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still slap down…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Cachet — isn’t that like panache, but sitting down?”

— Warren Zevon

“To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero; panache is therefore…

— Edmond Rostand

You look at William Powell in 'My Man Godfrey' and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very refined gentleman.…

— Evan Peters

“Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank…

— Edmond Rostand

I don't go for the flash and panache.

— Paul Walker

See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

— Michael Chabon