Top 100 My Secret Quotes
#1. You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman
a devil!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#3. I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?
Georges Bernanos
#4. I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
Will Patton
#5. You have a case, Holmes?" I remarked. "The faculty of deduction is certainly contagious, Watson," he answered. "It has enabled you to probe my secret. Yes, I have a case. After a month of trivialities and stagnation the wheels move once more.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#6. By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.
Lynn Shelton
#7. In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.
Zhou Xun
#8. I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.
Lucy Walker
#9. Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#10. I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.
Mike Love
#11. I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.
Les Paul
#12. My secret is cool and mysterious like a jagged scar across my chest, and not dull and heavy like I gave up church buy not the angst.
J.C. Lillis
#14. I'll be marching through the morning,
Marching through the night,
Moving 'cross the borders
Of My Secret Life.
Leonard Cohen
#15. But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
Harry Houdini
#16. When I'm by myself, magic is something personal. My burden, my secret.
But at Watford, magic is just the air that we breathe. It's what makes me part of something bigger, not the thing that sets me apart.
Rainbow Rowell
#17. I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.
Pierre Soulages
#18. I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality
Joseph Conrad
#19. This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.
Eckhart Tolle
#20. I always win in every fight; my secret weapons are my kindness and forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
#21. My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.
Moby
#22. This is the end to my Saturday night. My cat has watched me whack off to a vision of my best friend. "Don't say a word," I hiss. He looks away, lifting his chin haughtily. But he'll keep my secret. I'll keep his, too, the fucking little voyeur.
Lauren Blakely
#23. If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.
John Elway
#24. My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive.
Johannes Heesters
#25. Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#26. My secret is I cannot go to bed, I cannot sleep, if my bed is not made before I go to bed. I can leave it unmade in the morning, but I have to remake it before I get into it to sleep.
Kevin Jonas
#27. My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.
Robert Fulghum
#28. I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.
Ichiro Suzuki
#29. My fat is political because when I show it off it really seems to piss people off. My fat is political because I'm keeping it. My fat is political because it's fucking hot. My fat is my flag, my claim to fame, my battle scar, my secret fat girl society badge.
Virgie Tovar
#30. I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.
Ray Bradbury
#31. From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
Ray Bradbury
#32. My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
J. D. Souther
#34. My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.
Al Lewis
#35. Even you, o Princess, in your cold room, watch the stars, that tremble with love and with hope. But my secret is hidden within me, my name no one shall know...
Giacomo Puccini
#36. I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.
Robert Webb
#37. My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.
Mother Teresa
#38. My heart, my secret diary, my companion. The well and the sacred place of my unborn wishes and desires.
Euginia Herlihy
#39. Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#40. This is my secret - that at any moment I might fly away.
Jennifer Niven
#41. Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
Nadia Comaneci
#42. You remember I said last night that you were my secret?" Anna nodded. "I knew just what you meant. You're mine.
Joan G. Robinson
#43. In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.
Alberto Manguel
#44. The problem I have telling my secret', said Eldric, 'is that it's a secret.
Franny Billingsley
#45. My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
Laurie Anderson
#47. If you really want your hair to look good, just don't wash it for a day. That's my secret.
Zac Efron
#48. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#49. I love vintage shopping, but my secret spot for great tees and casual stuff is Trico Field. They have the cutest kids' clothes, too!
Stacey Bendet
#50. I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your friends. They watched me grow up, and most of them had little kids, so I was kind of giving them a warm-up of what was coming.
Susan Ford
#51. People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person.
Dennis Washington
#52. I will become an ocean and make you my greatest secret ever, I'll keep thousands of demons to guard my secret. I'll create storms that none has ever seen. I will lure everyone to the darkest sides and will destroy them if they try to reach you and see what I am hiding back in my heart.
Akshay Vasu
#53. I was alone in this discovery because it was my secret, my private exploration.
Paloma Beck
#54. Maybe you need to save your dad-concerns for when I'm found drunk, or high - and - arrested because my secret Argentinean boyfriend, Ignacio, convinced me to smuggle condoms full of drugs and
Anne Eliot
#55. No one will ever ask me to sing because it's beautiful. My secret is hiding my musicianship behind humor.
Nick Offerman
#56. I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude.
Jerry Rice
#57. It may upset my secret sisters that I say this, but between you and me, if you're so fortunate as to have captured the perfect male, peeling off that chain-mail bikini and becoming a part-time Amazon is not so bad after all.
-Author's Note, Anne Fortier
Anne Fortier
#59. My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.
Bob Hope
#60. The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.
Stephen Chbosky
#61. Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
Fats Domino
#62. Before my secret meeting with the Pope I asked him to come wearing white if deep down he agreed with the Reformation. Pretty crazy.
Kevin DeYoung
#63. But in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. They can be my secret indulgence.
Daphne Du Maurier
#64. I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.
Donald Freed
#65. But my secret is: even though I wish I could be thin, and that I could have the ease of lifestyle that I associate with being thin, I don't wish for it with all of my heart. Because my heart is reserved for way more important things. P. 202
Mindy Kaling
#66. I had come there not only to look at, but also to number myself sincerely and wholeheartedly with, the mob. As for my secret moral views, I had no room for them amongst my actual, practical opinions.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#67. I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.
James McGreevey
#68. I don't judge the men and women who chat with me and reveal their secrets and perversions. How can I? My secret, my obsession, is worse than any of theirs.
Alessandra Torre
#69. On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.
Derek Jarman
#70. I shook my head in wonder. "How does he do it?"
"Want to know my secret?" Nikolai asked from behind us. We both jumped. He leaned in, looked from left to right, and whispered loudly. "I have a lot of money."
I rolled my eyes.
"No, really," he protested. "A lot of money.
Leigh Bardugo
#71. If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours.
Tsugumi Ohba
#72. Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.
Ian McNulty
#73. My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
Compay Segundo
#74. I can't think of anybody ... who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me
Jack Kerouac
#75. My secret is that I have never thought there is a secret to anything in life. Passion. Love. Drive. Work. Work. Work. Dull but true.
Stephen Fry
#76. But truly? In my secret heart, Jalan? What drives me is that I will not let that bitch win. She has raised her hand against me and mine. She will die by my own hands. There's no life everlasting for that one. No new world. This is a war, boy. My war. I am the Red Queen - and I do not lose. She
Mark Lawrence
#77. Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?
Mary Shelley
#79. I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .
Leonard Cohen
#80. My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school.
Richard Flanagan
#81. But here's my secret, what I think has gotten my husband and I through over twenty years, my sister through almost thirty, and my folks through almost over fifty: humor. We laugh at ourselves, each other, at pretty much everything.
Rachel Thompson
#82. Don't think of me as a librarian. Think of me as a mad scientist; this is my secret laboratory.
Kami Garcia
#83. I am the mystery of Love itself, the lust and spirit of unity aflame with the infinite passion for the Unknown. Thus are all things made one, in me, by virtue of my secret force; and in this light there is the unspeakable joy, the ineffable bliss, the orgasmic ecstasy of the ages.
David Cherubim
#84. Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music...
Anne Rice
#85. 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.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#86. I think my secret would have to be just being true to who I am and just being myself.
Tia Mowry
#87. My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
M. Night Shyamalan
#88. My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.
Chuck Palahniuk
#89. And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.
Jeff Lindsay
#90. I can still feel them there. His lips on mine. His words in my ear that day.
Itsy, say you'll be my girl. My secret. Oh, please say it.
Suzanne Palmieri
#92. Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
Carol Leifer
#93. Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#94. And there were moments on that first night in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of all my secret power, I was somehow kin to every mortal man. Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul.
Anne Rice
#95. Weetzie and My Secret Agent Lover Man and Dirk and Duck and Cherokee and Witch Baby and Slinkster Dog and Go-Go Girl and the puppies Pee Wee, Wee Wee, Teenie Wee, Tiki Tee, and Tee Pee were driving down Hollywood Boulevard on their way to the Tick Tock Tea Room for turkey platters.
Francesca Lia Block
#96. I lamented in every gathering;
I associated with those in bad or happy circumstances.
(But) everyone became my friend from his (own) opinion;
he did not seek my secrets from within me.
My secret is not far from my lament,
but eyes and ears do not have the light (to sense it.
Rumi
#97. My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.
Shiloh Walker
#98. In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.
Haniel Long
#99. Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.
Robert Frost
#100. I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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