Secret Quotes - Page 78

The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.

I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.

I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Thoughts become things

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world; the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis, and of all the marvelous secrets of Knowledge

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.

That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.