Secretly Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

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.

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

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.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

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.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

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

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.

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

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

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

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

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.