I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.
Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.
I am for secret, dark debates.
The secret to tapping into the supernatural is for you to have the courage to do the natural first.
The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath.
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?
But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.
It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.
Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.
There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.
Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.
You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.
If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.
I come from a place where people get high, the grades get low, and if someone has a secret EVERYONE KNOWS.
Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
