As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information.… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
It all comes down to this: if your subconscious "financial blueprint" is not "set" for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know,… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Love was the secret behind everything...love was what made vineyards grow and filled the spaces between the stars, and fixed the ground… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Enough, I shall be understood in ten years by people who will be doing what you do today. Then my geysers will… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It was not a state secret that I would call on Thackeray. I was not hiding anything. — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you… — Jerome Robbins Copy Share Image
The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Just why it should have happened, or why it should have happened just when it did, he could not, of course, possibly… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
What is it about a secret love that makes everything they do shine, everything they say sound like a sonnet and every… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
When you're going into companies and you're secret filming, I didn't realise the amount of protection that you need legally before you… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work; not for the money reward, for… — Sidney Abram Weltmer Copy Share Image
The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus. — Penelope Trunk Copy Share Image
One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us. — Mary Kay Ash 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
I practice yoga every day and when my schedule allows me to have time, I go get a massage. And I'm fond… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
