Quotes About Intrigue

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

There are no seacaves deeper than her eyes;

I like a twist of meaning.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Why did you do all that, Frankie?" asked Porter. "I mean, it was brilliant, what you did, what you made us do - but why would you bother? That's what I can't figure out." Frankie sighed. "Have you ever heard of the panopticon?" she asked him. Porter shook his head. "Have you ever been in love?" He shook his head again. "Then I can't explain it," Frankie said. They went inside and took the geometry test.

It is possible people are curious about us because we do not show them our hearts. It is possible that we enjoy the way people are curious about us.

The woman pushed up the arms of her long-sleeved shirt and turned to the digital readout of her treadmill. A scar wound down her right forearm, jagged, like from a knife, not clean like from an operation. There was a story there.

I seem to remember there was some hocus-pocus with that one." "You mean hanky-panky!" shouted Ruth. "There was hanky panky.

I understand our story now. We are criminals. A band of four.

Invisible Man. A Passage to India. The Magnificent Ambersons.

Mi mente funciona de maneras misteriosas

Can't we talk about sex or murder?" asked Johnny.

bad as it seemed. Gwendolyn stirred, her eyelids opening a crack. "What happened?" she asked, her words slurred. "I'm not sure," said Annie. She glanced at the jeweled object still held in her sister's hand. Although Gwendolyn hadn't recognized it, Annie knew what it was right away. Someone had crafted a tiny model

She was like a woman of Leonardo Da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.

S]he might yet reveal depths of strangeness, if not of meaning.

Uma campainha elétrica ressoou. A mulher pressionou um interruptor e a música cessou. "Acho que tenho de ver quem é", ela pensou, resignada, e pôs sua poltrona em movimento. A poltrona, assim como a música, era acionada por um mecanismo e deslizou com a mulher para o outro lado do quarto de onde provinha o som inoportuno da campainha.

Life is a mysterious business.

She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.

Qua story, it can only have one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next. And conversely it can only have one fault: that of making the audience not want to know what happens next.

It is I who am sorry," said Miss Lavish. "We literary hacks are shameless creatures. I believe there's no secret of the human heart into which we wouldn't pry.

Shrines are fascinating, especially when rarely opened.