Secret Quotes - Page 110

There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

If you own a simple Weber kettle grill, you own a smoker. You don't have to spend an enormous amount of money or even buy an extra piece of equipment. If you have that kettle grill, the whole secret to getting a lower temperature is to set up your grill for indirect grilling and use only half as much charcoal.

What happened was I was invited to meet Tom [Hardy] to discuss a project that he had in his mind about an adventurer who returns to England from Africa with secrets and with a history, and the original idea was set some 80 years later than it is now. But in the conversation I really took to the idea and I'd wanted for a while to set something in 1830 and 1840 in London, so it struck a chord.

None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.

Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

I had a secret that I was bound to protect but a secret that i was not to share. A secert that suddenly he knew all about.

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.

it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

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.

What is it about a secret love that makes everything they do shine, everything they say sound like a sonnet and every expression they make perfect, when to everyone else you speak to they're quite ordinary. It's a cruel sort of thing.

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.