Moderation is the secret of survival.
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend’s house and staying up late and watching ‘Nosferatu.’ Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‘Well, you know: It’s secret.’
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.
I’m always asked, ‘What’s the secret to success?’ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.
I would love to tell you I’ve found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can’t count all your ribs from a distance you’re considered obese.
I was never sent to Kashmir on any secret mission. I want to make that position clear.
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
You don’t run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won’t use the word. He’s made war on the war on terror.
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can’t keep mum.
It’s no secret that I’ve become known for my strong political views.
There’s nothing routine about ‘Boardwalk Empire.’ It’s like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: ‘Meet us at the corner of such and so.’
My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell everyone, ‘You have to stop washing your hair so much!’
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.
I’m really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.
I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that’s really motivating.
The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.
I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was ‘The Secret Garden’ which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not!
Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That’s the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.
The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.
I have a notebook of concepts. There are titles everywhere if you are looking for them. I pull from them. There is a secret list that I keep for myself about what I want to sing about, and those are the ones I know I am not going to give up for someone else.
I’ve never met Eminem; you don’t meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them.
It’s fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you’ve got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman’s beauty secret: joy in living.
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
It shouldn’t take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
The secret behind success isn’t as much of a secret as people think. It’s pretty simple. It’s working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.
I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It’s a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It’s just a beautiful city to be in.
The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren’t perfect. No one is.
The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
Punctuality and showing respect in the workplace are the foundations of success. Success is meaningless without them. I’m always looking to pass these lessons on to younger players, because they are the secret of excelling and developing your game.
I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.
I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out.
I’ve always found the secret is to stay fit and treat sport as a profession. I chose sport as a passion.
There’s no secret. Just work hard.
I’m not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you’re ninety?
I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!
There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn’t yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
We encrypt ‘Drag Race’ with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the ’80s.
The secret ingredient to every meal is love. And also garlic.
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
I’ve always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I’m not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
Sleep is the secret of life! I must have a comfortable bed, a room at exactly 60 degrees, and complete darkness like a tomb to sleep. If I don’t get 10 hours, then I’m miserable and I make everyone around me miserable.
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 – in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam – that is probably the most important case.
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.
I’ve been married, divorced; I’ve been the baby momma, the side piece and the secret… all of these things. I share it in an effort to make people better.
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
The secret of it is to read what you’ve got in front of you. Don’t, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don’t pause. Don’t put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don’t sort of do anything other than read it.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
