If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.
There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now. . . I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.
Secret Services are everywhere. They are part of out daily life. We just don't really care. We are not concerned at all.
If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of life, especially your financial life.
. . . we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods.
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen. . . . It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.
Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path. . . Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.
There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.
There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
Secrets are made to be found out with time.
In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.
This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.
