#secret

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#ajar #all day #cat #day #door

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#burn #darkest #eyes #feel #i

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#best way #build #cleanse #communication #exercising

Now the big question is: what direction are you moving? Look inward; there is a burning desire in your heart that will make you the person you can become – A superstar! ↗

— Maureen Lawrence

#greatness #lawrence #leadership #maureen #the-secrets-of-superstar

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999. ↗

— Kenneth Robert Livingstone

#any #authority #ethical #exercise #functions

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#double #double meaning #expression #front #got

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#ahead #always #artists #back #every

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

— Michel Foucault

#nature #secrets #nature

This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#magic #secrets #age

And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#ocean #sea #security #the-secret-sharer #beauty