Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
I think everybody has a secret life.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
The dirty little secret that nobody likes to talk about is that things just might have been better before the Internet. We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text messaging and Facebook consumed our lives.
My first-ever celebrity crush was Val Kilmer from ‘Top Secret!’ Not his biggest film, but I remember loving him in that movie.
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today’s children are not as patient. The best example of this is ‘The Secret Garden,’ which I adored as a child.
In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
I’m a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
It wasn’t a secret that I was gay. I’d come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.
Millions upon millions of secret spending by the fossil fuel industry that was unleashed by the disastrous 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision – this money not only fuels the campaigns of many candidates; it also represents a threat to those who don’t toe the polluter line on climate change.
Your genome isn’t really secret.
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.
Making a series can sometimes feel like you’re keeping a secret for months until it comes out; so when it finalizes in front of you, if you like the final product, it can be very exciting.
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
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.
Ladies, I’ll let you in on a lil secret: guys don’t notice your nails.
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
I’ve said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation.
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn’t very good at sports.
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.
I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be a secret agent.
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.
That’s the secret to happiness. Find something you can make money at that you really love to do.
I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn’t believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age… I couldn’t get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!
Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.
My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.
The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.
I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I’d have loved to have children.
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.
The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that’s really distasteful to me.
To read Transtromer – the best times are at night, in silence, and alone – is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy – the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
After I had done the first ‘Pirates’ movie and ‘Secret Window,’ I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, ‘Oh well, let’s go see it.’ I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.
I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one corner, serving dark beer and kielbasa to keep up one’s strength while browsing, and all around will be the kind of angels usually found in Victoria’s Secret catalogs.
Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
I just think that the Victoria’s Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that’s all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.
I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
