Secret Quotes

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me!

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

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.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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.

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

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.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.