Secret Quotes
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The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
Robert Baden-Powell -
Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.
Wil Wheaton
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To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.
Banesh Hoffmann -
The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.
Gary Hirshberg -
Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have them in the open
Sara Shepard -
To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.
K. P. Yohannan -
You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a secret to it, it's no big deal. Before I go out, I put a slice of bologna in each of my shoes. So when I'm on stage, I feel funny.
Steve Martin -
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.
Erik Larson
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There is absolutely no truth to that statement. Iran has not, repeat not, been enriching in secret.
Gary Sick -
Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.
Brian Tracy -
Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel Johnson -
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
Garry Trudeau -
Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.
Katha Pollitt
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
Natasha Bedingfield -
This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.
John Stamos -
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. Pritchett -
We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.
Alexander Lowen -
A woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.
Anna Katharine Green -
It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
Abraham Lincoln
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We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.
Steve Jobs -
The only secret people keep is immortality.
Emily Dickinson -
I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders -
I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's the reason for the story. I hint at the secret early on. Immediately I want the reader to get the feeling that something here isn't quite right. It helps maintain the suspense if a puzzling element is introduced in the first few pages of the book, but the answer isn't revealed until the final ones. Hopefully, readers want to know what the heck is really going on, and it's the desire to find out that keeps them turning pages.
Sandra Brown