Secret Quotes - Page 62

As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

On paper curiously shaped Scribblers to-day of every sort, In verses Valentines ycled'd To Venus chime their annual court. I too will swell the motley throng, And greet the all auspicious day, Whose privilege permits my song My love this secret to convey.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.

The secret is this. You make your own happiness.

A secret makes a woman woman - Vermouth

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

...It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that—whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when you tell someone a dream or talk about your astrological signs as code for all the things you love about each other.

Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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

drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.

Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.