Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

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• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Better

• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Literature
  • Secret
  • Western

• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Secret
  • Planning
  • German

• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Right
  • Half

• I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Years
  • Three
  • Half

• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Long
  • Two
  • Half

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Better
  • Half
  • Often

• Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

  

  Ian Hart
  • See
  • Secret
  • Missing

• The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Half
  • Second
  • Complete

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

• I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Day
  • More
  • Half

• The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Secret

• Half a million dollars just to upgrade the car show I aint even detonate the bombs in the arsenal

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Car
  • Half
  • Dollars

• There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I’m avampire. I havesecret powers ,” he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, “Actually, your mom let me in.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Power
  • Mom
  • Secret

• They don't know you're secretly a badass?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Secret
  • Badass

• It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I shall be as secret as the grave.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Secret
  • Grave

• If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Hollywood

• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Fun
  • Control

• Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Time
  • Long
  • Humanity

• Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Water
  • Moon
  • Need

• To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Secret
  • Half
  • One