#secretly

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#any #big #channel #day #discovery

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#always #appreciate #day #different #felt

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

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

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

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#either #emotional #fathers #mothers #reserved

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#done #flowing #good #good man #green