Quotes About Suspense

Das Fräulein Scuderi? Bei meiner Seele! In diesem Wort weht 'was von ihrem Atem. Und kommt's von ihr, dann hat dies kleine Lied Eine Geschichte, die mich intressiert.

Kaitlyn froze and then said in a low tone, "That'd better be your gun." "Why yes, I always pack my gun where it'll blow my balls off."[Landon]

Damn it," I said. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton." He smiled at me, his teeth very white in the darkness of his face. "Eat him," he said.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

Miss Silver's fire. 'Of course

Il existait à Paris des zones intermédiaires, des no man's land où l'on était à la lisière de tout, en transit, ou même en suspens.

It's not a large crowd," he said, "and I have the feeling this wedding party is going to end in an orgy." He shrugged his shoulders.

Le moment de la journée que je préférais, c'était à Paris l'hiver entre six heures et huit heures et demie du matin, quand il faisait encore nuit. Un répit avant le lever du jour. Le temps était en suspens et l'on se sentait plus léger que d'habitude.

So much depends on when you stop a story" .

The priest took a step back and pulled out his crucifix. It had a disguised gun barrel in the top.

All horror movies start the same way. Whether the scene is an abandoned cabin, a dark alley, or a peaceful cottage, one line of dialogue, quietly uttered five minutes before the carnage starts, is inevitable: "Did you hear something?

In a lovely paper called "Suspense in the Absence of Uncertainty," Richard Gerrig points out that suspense can be created even if one knows the outcome—the election of George Washington as president, say, or the successful creation of the atomic bomb by the United States in World War II—so long as there is uncertainty about how the obstacles are dealt with. It is this surmounting of obstacles that can pull us in; they're what give the opportunity of pleasure.

The thin, sharp wires strung across the valley mouth sliced through his neck and sent the blood-spurting head bouncing like a ball amongst the loose shale.

Suddenly de Montfort went rigid and the ciborium slipped from his hand, dashing the white hosts like snowflakes onto the altar steps. The man's hand went out, pointing at the king, his usually skull-like face now almost cadaverous, the skin drawn tight, the eyes bulging. Corbett rose, his hand searching for the knife beneath his cloak. De Montfort's mouth opened and shut like a landed carp, then with a loud cry he fell headlong down the steps, his

Riven eyed him sidelong. "Cale, I think … that he is waiting, too. Like the shadowwalkers." "For what?" Cale started to say, but could not find his voice at first. "For what?" "For you to let him go." Riven gestured at Jak.

to murder him?' Horton shrugged. 'How did Owen seem at Arina's funeral?

Perri O'Shaughnessy

I'm not actually going to blow you out of the airlock Roberts. I just need you in a quiet place where you won't blurt out something stupid at the wrong time near the wrong watch.

So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.

In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the kingís gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the kingís eunuchs who guarded the entrance, grew angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

So the kingís attendants answered him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” “Bring him in,” ordered the king.

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the kingís mouth, they covered Hamanís face.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

So the Jews gathered around Him and demanded, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”