#secretly

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#ago #finally #how #i #learn

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#adventures #boy #confess #drawn #fake

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#either #i #in print #influenced #me

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#could #hendrix #i #jimi #jimi hendrix

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#be true #compassion #despair #faith #generals

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#bit #coworkers #double #during #experience

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#continuing #government #important #inflation #part

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t. ↗

— William Trogdon

#adventurers #find #go #hoping #kinds

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#back #back-up #get #go #i

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#bugged #burglars #caught #clues #concrete