Secret Words

Famous quotes containing the words secret and/or words:

    And do not pity C. Q. One had to choose between him and H. H., and one wanted H. H. to exist at least a couple of months longer, so as to have him make you live in the minds of later generations. I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)