Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

Anais Nin

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

Anais Nin

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

Christopher Wren

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Anna Katharine Green

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

Anne Sexton

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

Anne Rice

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music...

Anne Rice

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

Alice Temperley

Lingerie is that inner, secret glamour.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Anna Torv

The secret to life is trusting yourself and loving who you are, just the way you are.

Ally Carter

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

Ally Carter

The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.

Ally Carter

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

Allen Ginsberg

Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]

Andy Borowitz

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

Amy Waldman

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

Bill Richardson

will not tolerate the theft of our secrets.

Jane Austen

There are secrets in all families.

Jamie Zawinski

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

Janet McTeer

You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there.

Brian Cox

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Bret Harte

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method...

Bret Easton Ellis

He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

Bob Dylan

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

Bobby Fischer

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

Barry Humphries

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

Brian Williams

I found the secret of life to be body placement.

Edmund Leach

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

Eckhart Tolle

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

Eckhart Tolle

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

Elie Wiesel

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Elie Wiesel

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.