Top 100 Little Secret Quotes
#1. Here's the dirty little secret: Fiat currency is designed to lose value. Its very purpose is to confiscate your wealth and transfer it to the government. Each time the government prints a new dollar and spends it, the government gets the full purchasing power of that dollar.
Michael Maloney
#2. My tricks are, I get Botox in my forehead-I just have my doctor do a little shot there. if you overdo, it looks bad. I believe in just a little bit. It allows you to keep that mobility in your face. It's a great little secret.
Jenny McCarthy
#3. There's always a little decency in the worst places ... and always a little secret selfishness in the best.
Joe Hill
#4. Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.
Condoleezza Rice
#6. Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier ... It just makes you less likely to quit.
Kate Jacobs
#7. The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.
Charles Stross
#8. They had been friends in the way that only girls could be - they wore each other's clothes and slept at each other's houses and told each other every little secret. They promised to always stay friends.
Kristin Hannah
#9. I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on YOU to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.""
Bernadette
Maria Semple
#10. Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
Barry Ritholtz
#11. The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
Martin Seligman
#12. Everyone had a dirty, little secret that is never spoken out loud to anyone. Which is another way of saying people are never what they seem.
Anonymous
#14. My goal
and this is kind of my own little secret
but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young
not that it's big really that many places
but places where they have no idea about football.
Steve Young
#15. No false promises are made that if you read these pages, you will learn the formula for writing a million-dollar screenplay; in fact, the dirty little secret of screenwriting books is that anyone who promises such formulas is lying. There
Peter Hanson
#16. Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
Adriana Trigiani
#17. One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.
Andy Roddick
#18. For eventually one gets over reality's affront to one's innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.
Paul Russell
#19. My dirty little secret is that I hate running. I don't like cardio. I also really like food, and all kinds of food - bread, chocolate, all of the yummy stuff. I up my cardio quite a bit and I start cutting out carbs, sugar, and salt just to try to get as lean as I can.
Christopher Gorham
#20. I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in your experiences.
Yvonne Woon
#21. I'm standing here in just my panties, my hand on your dick. Does it look like I want to stop?"
--Angela Abbott, in Dirty Little Secret
Sophia Ryan
#22. Shh." His breath at her ear sent a delicious shiver down her spine. "Be very quiet and very still or everyone will know I'm fingering your pussy under this blanket. It needs to be our little secret, doesn't it, baby girl?
Tessa Bailey
#23. Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people.
Lisa Murkowski
#24. Directing is a lot of fun, but you have to be on your toes every minute. If you zone out for even a second, you'll miss something and things will get screwed up. And here's a little secret that I'm going to let out of the bag: That is not the case with acting.
Misha Collins
#25. My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.
Justin Baldoni
#26. Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.
Brett Dennen
#27. A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.
Adam Shankman
#28. Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.
William Landay
#29. Even now, we have laryngitis from screaming at each other: the dirty little secret of a durable marriage.
Erica Jong
#30. The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.
Ina Garten
#31. It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.
Stephen King
#32. It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town.
Judith Kelman
#33. I'm not the kind of girl who wants her name tattooed on your arm," she purred. "Think of me as your dirty little secret.
Michael Faudet
#34. The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
Dee Dee Myers
#35. But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.
Julie Anne Peters
#36. I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel ... to me, stress is just another bad drug that I don't want to do.
Jerry Stahl
#37. As Matt walked Rick outside, he whispered, "Don't forget my little secret." He wiggled his eyebrows. "A happy wife. A happy life. Got it?"
Rick nodded. "Got it.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#38. Here's a little secret:love always disappoints. It's the concious choice to love someone or not love someone, despite the disappointment, that makes it beautiful.
Ty Roth
#39. That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
Maria Semple
#40. We all have something to offer, and we must choose to focus on what we do have to offer, not what we don't. And remember the dirty little secret is that those who are acting like they have it all together really don't.
Miles Anthony Smith
#41. I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.
Katee Sackhoff
#42. I'm happy to get up in the morning. I'll tell you a little secret: I still want to work in Hollywood. However, I get really excited about getting on a plane, flying to a city, and talking to a group of people about finding the gifts they already have inside.
Kim Coles
#43. Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime.
Robert M. Morgenthau
#44. The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.
Norman Podhoretz
#45. That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership.
David Campbell
#46. A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do.
Sufe Bradshaw
#47. My ugly, little secret is the hunger for attention.
Liam O'Connor
#48. I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.
Sebastian Junger
#49. If I'm home alone, I just dance ... it's my own little secret.
Harry Shum Jr.
#50. There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
George Sand
#51. I love the Fashion Fair Concealer Wheel. That's my little secret. It comes with three colors in it. What I like about it is that you could almost cover your whole face in it if you want because you can mix the colors to create the perfect shade that works with your skin.
Ciara
#52. I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.
Pauley Perrette
#53. The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.
Charles R. Schwab
#54. The dirty little secret of biological psychiatry is that every single drug in the psychopharmacopoeia is palliative. That is, all of them are symptom suppressors, and when you stop taking them you're back at square one.
Sally Brampton
#55. The dirty little secret of genomics is that we still know next to nothing about how a genome translates into the particularities of a living and breathing individual. If
Svante Paabo
#56. I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.
George Carlin
#57. I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them.
Alasdair MacLean
#58. I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
A.M. Homes
#60. I wish we would stop sending signals out into space to find other "intelligent" life. I'd prefer earth remained the Best Kept Little Secret, thank you very much.
Ava Bradley
#61. The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.
Tim Cahill
#62. This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.
Chrys Fey
#63. For years, we'd been the thorn of the neighborhood, the dirty little secret that wasn't so secret. The girls who just wouldn't settle.
Kat Zhang
#64. Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.
Wil S. Hylton
#65. I've been waiting to have facial hair on camera for the longest time - I'm always playing teenagers, and I always have to shave. I'll let you in on a little secret: I have sensitive skin, and I'm a sensitive guy, so shaving is something that I don't look forward to.
Dustin Milligan
#66. A true heterosexual never has a problem with gay people, gay people sense he is into pussy and only into pussy. That's why I can't abide homophobes, deep down they fear their little secret will one day be exposed, picked up by a very reliable gaydar, as sure as wifi is picked up by a computer.
Robert Black
#67. She paused a moment.
"Pepino, shall I tell all our dear friends our little secret?" she said. "If you say 'no,' I shan't. But, please, Pepino--"
Pepino, however, had been instructed to say 'yes,' and accordingly did so.
E.F. Benson
#68. Let me tell you a little secret: There are no bad actors. There are none. You have to find the right role. I never give up on people. For God's sake, look at me.
Geneva Carr
#69. My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.
Charles Saatchi
#70. Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?
Eddie Van Halen
#71. I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'
Rami Malek
#72. Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I'm a very superstitious person. I'm walking onto the plane as we speak. I'm putting my hands on the outside of the plane and my feet are on the lip of the plane. I have to do it every time before I fly.
Jessica Chastain
#73. The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
Andrew Sullivan
#74. If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.
Charles Saatchi
#75. When I first met Aaliyah - it time for the world to hear this, I'm gonna give a little secret - I was in love with her.
Timbaland
#76. Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you carry with you in public - the knowledge that you alone have the ability to escape to a wonderland where you can make anything happen.
Judy Delton
#77. The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.
Louie Gohmert
#78. I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.
Jeremy Irvine
#79. The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.
Geraldine Brooks
#80. If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life
whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours.
Don Roff
#81. This is Hollywood's dirty little secret. It's not about making movies. Are you kidding? Forget that shit about "the Dream Factory." It's about manufacturing frustration.
Jerry Stahl
#82. My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I'm phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I'll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this phobia, but I didn't! I'm still phobic.
Caroline Leavitt
#83. Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.
Paul Gillin
#84. We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.
Whitney Johnson
#85. Here's a little secret that's going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person.
Mandy Hale
#86. I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.
Jodie Foster
#88. But here's a little secret: man cannot live on rationality alone.
Jessa Crispin
#89. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#90. All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries.
Teodor Flonta
#91. Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret ...
Louisa May Alcott
#92. The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied - and hold onto them.
Karl Schroeder
#93. It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical literary masterpieces of the past, and there is no shortage of people who believe that what little they're required to learn in school is still too much.
Terry Teachout
#94. In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.
William Poundstone
#95. Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't want to talk about it, because I don't want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.
Gerhard Richter
#96. There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.
Bill Toomey
#97. Noronha's Laws
1. No man works harder than he must.
2. The joy of living, lies in making little things big.
3. Try never to do what you do not want to do. The secret of a happy old age is in never doing what you do not want to do.
R.P. Noronha
#98. All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik
#99. I don't understand it. What can there be in a simple little story like that to make people praise it so?" she said, quite bewildered. "There is truth in it, Jo, that's the secret.
Louisa May Alcott
#100. Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.
George MacDonald
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