Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.

I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key.

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

Declassified papers report that John Kennedy was taking eight different medications a day. He was so wasted, his Secret Service code name was Ted Kennedy.

I think I'm not always what I seem.

I realize that for many New Yorkers, this is the first time you've heard my name, and you don't know much about me. Over these next two years you will get to know me, but more importantly, I will get to know you.

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.

Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.

What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

Congress is debating a kill switch that would allow President Obama to freeze all activity on the internet if there was a national emergency. The kill switch goes by the top-secret code name 'Microsoft Windows.'

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his parents sent him to America in search of a better life. He has two names, one American, Clark Kent, and the other foreign, Kal-El. He wears two sets of clothes and lives in between two cultures. He loves his new country, but a part of him still longs for his old one.

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.