“What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.” KnowsMayDoeRealLastsFacesBlackVoiceSecretLaughingHeardShareDrinkMessagesCharityStrangerNeighborCeaseDawnReal LoveSparesCommitteesComfortingFace To FaceOne FriendBlack Day Book:Living Alone Source: Living Alone
“When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages. I would record TV commercials with SoundRecorder.exe on Windows 95 and reverse them to see if I was being subliminally influenced to watch Pokémon by Japanese spies.” IfsYearsSecretWatchesRecordsTvsMessagesWindowCodeObsessedConspiracyReverseSpyTv Commercial Author:Alex Hirsch
“There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.” PeopleIdeasChristianSpiritualSecretHellBandMessagesLife ExperienceDisguiseBentAffiliation Author:Amy Lee
“In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.” WorldShowsLightSongTurnsSecretHalfMessagesChemicalsTurn-onGroove Author:Art Linkletter
“Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?” LittlesEarthPastLanguageSecretRecordsHappenedBrokenMessagesUnderstoodAncientCodeMudLava Book:Weight Source: Weight
“Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.” MenKindSaidMatterSpiritFallFeltEasySecretGoneFireColdMessagesWindowGarbageMessyGrimGeeseSnowdenPimplesYossarianRipenessCatch 22 Important Book:Catch-22: A Novel Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!” WayFactsSecretMessagesObviousSeekersIcing Author:J. K. Rowling
“I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.” WritingLooksEnoughStoriesLinesSecretMessagesShadowDirtFootprint Book:Bag Of Bones: A Novel Source: Bag Of Bones: A Novel
“The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.” PeopleNeedsFactsProblemRunningTodayYoungEnergyImaginationSecretBrainTalentYouthBearsNeededMessagesDifficultySolveDesperateReignParticipationSocial ChangeImbecilesChanges In SocietyYoung Talent Author:Alvin Toffler