Secret Quotes

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.

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.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

We used to hold those secret meetings at her house.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

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 great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.