Carol Shields Quotes

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.

You never know what goes on behind closed doors.

In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read in my memoir are the stories and thoughts I've never shared openly.

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.

We can't say anything, but just remember that, on Fringe, nothing is as it seems. There's always a little more to the story behind the story. He's definitely a large part, going forward. A lot of things will come full circle.

Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.

There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them know why I've been absent. I'm torn as I'm quite private. I'm not feeling well. I'm having some health issues. So please keep me in your prayers.