Secret Quotes

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

~ Juan Goytisolo

I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

~ Jerry Saltz

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

~ Voltaire

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

~ Ellen G. White

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

~ Shirley Knight

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

~ E. W. Howe

I make amazing fried chicken. The secret is taco seasoning.

~ Tituss Burgess

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

~ Don Delillo

It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial public offerings. They get to meet in person with companies' managements.

~ Alex Berenson

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

~ James Humes

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

~ Zoe Saldana

After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

~ Ada Yonath

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

~ Aphra Behn

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

~ Martin Buber

It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try to answer every one of these mails and phone calls because, after all, it's not a violation of physics to travel from one star system to another.

~ Seth Shostak

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

~ George Lucas

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

~ Michael Ignatieff

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

~ Joyce Brothers

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

~ Elvis Presley

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

~ Dolly Parton

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

~ Emile M. Cioran

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

~ Christian Dior

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

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sleep is the real beauty secret, but I don't get enough of that.

~ Chelsea Leyland

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

~ Rob Corddry

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

~ Richard C. Armitage

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.

~ John Burroughs

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

~ Jean-Luc Godard

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

~ Charles M. Schulz

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

~ Horace Walpole

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

~ Reed Hastings

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

~ Regina Brett

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

~ John C. Maxwell

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

~ Wilma Mankiller

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

~ Henry Ford

The secret of success is sincerity.

~ Jean Giraudoux

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

~ Walter Chrysler