#secret

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#although #control #day #day to day #got

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#language #like #little #own #place

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#after #before #during #fast #forget

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#keeps #moderately #neither #nor #observes

I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#high #high school #how #i #junior

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. ↗

— David Brainerd

#god #i #may #observed #perhaps

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought. ↗

— Arthur Bryant

#depart #dinner #great #great ones #growing

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#idea #kept #me #normal #really

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#because #challenged #chefs #chemistry #consider