Secretly Quotes

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.