Quotes About Intrigue

I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.

Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

'Game of Thrones' isn't all about magic - it's way more about political scheming and family tensions - but to be a part of this exclusive magic club is actually really cool.

There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword.

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

I respond well to terribly beautiful, terribly brilliant Russian women.

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

Noir: all those beautiful sentences telling you the most terrible things.

Jamadars and bheesties,' said the helmsman. 'Not to mention the major-domos, lordly lamplighters and twisted firestarters.' 'Twisted firestarters?' enquired the detective. 'I told you not to mention them.

This woman wasn't fat anywhere. She was slim as a whispered secret, and twice as dangerous, too.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Forget it, Jake -- it's Chinatown.

You know who," Jack said. "I mean Flaire, of course.

What is it?" I asked. "'The King in Yellow.'" I was dumfounded. Who had placed it there? How came it in my rooms? I had long ago decided that I should never open that book, and nothing on earth could have persuaded me to buy it. Fearful lest curiosity might tempt me to open it, I had never even looked at it in book-stores.

Robert W. Chambers

Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers.

Cuando Erdosain salió, la Coja le envolvió en una mirada singular, mirada de abanico que corta con una oblicua el cuerpo de un hombre de pies a cabeza, recogiendo en tangente toda la geometría interior de su vida.

Y cómo te va? -Muy bien... La farmacia da setenta pesos diarios. En Pico no hay otro que conozca la Biblia como yo. Lo desafié al cura a una controversia y no quiso agarrar viaje. Erdosain miró repentinamente esperanzado a su extraño amigo. Luego le preguntó: -¿Jugás siempre? -Sí, y Jesús, por mi mucha inocencia, me ha revelado el secreto de la ruleta

Nota del comentador: La simulación del asesinato de Barsut fue resuelta por el Astrólogo, a última hora, y después de un largo coloquio con aquél.

No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.