Quotes About Intrigue

Women. They are a complete mystery.

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Conspiracy theories are good to look at and you can find yourself Googling things until 3 A.M.!

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

You know, I'm not big on conspiracy theory. It does really kind of get my blood going when I find out there really are conspiracies that actually happened.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.

I like playing thieves.

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.

You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

I excelled in finding and acquiring secret information that I obtained in brush passes, dead drops, or in meetings in dusty alleys of third world capitals.

I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.

Personally, I've always liked movies about big diamonds, like 'Pink Panther' and 'The Thomas Crown Affair.' I've always found those films really interesting, and they have a good energy about them, which I like.

I would love to do espionage like 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' that kind of thing. And I've always had a fascination with madams. It's interesting to me what that institution is like, how those women are.

We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?

The world is packed with mistery. We tend to forget this, but it?s still packed tight with it, like water in stone.

Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she said, but she was whispering, too, and didn't move away from me.

She was watching me out of the corner of her eye. She put a hand to her white hair. I said hi toots you got a match? Hepzibah Dodd smiled a faded smile. She picked up her copy of An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. By Adam Smith. She stood and grabbed my arm. She had a grip like a brand-new bear trap. Her voice was quavery. She said of course big boy. She said in my apartment.

Willow shook his head. If he'd picked her lock a few days earlier, if he'd peeked into her closet, he'd have known then, and four people would have lived.

Rufe nodded. "Oh, sure, that's CIA style. Throw up a smoke screen—bumfoozle the opposition.

At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.