Quotes About Intrigue

But attention focused on their inane sexual banter, especially Charles's juvenile wish to be reincarnated as a tampon so he could "live inside your trousers.

But over time, people can lose their innate ability to fascinate. They acquire layers of boring.

If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.

A million generations after our reptilian brains retreated to the base of our brain stems, fascination continues to be our most basic form of attention. Why? Because fascination, at some level, is based upon survival. And to survive, you must fascinate.

Of the seven triggers, this is the most nuanced, and perhaps the most difficult to achieve. Mystique invites others closer, without giving them what they seek.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

FAPO- for amazement purposes only

There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Mr. Moore-tól hallom a nagy újságot, hogy Lady Castlemaine kegyvesztett lett és ma reggel elhagyta az udvart. Okát nem tudja, csak azt, hogy így van, amit én nagyon sajnálok, de ha a király nemcsak ?t hagyja el, hanem a többi szeret?it is, akkor szívb?l örülök ennek, mert úgy lehet, akkor majd többet tör?dik az ország dolgaival.

He stopped, because he wasn't sure what Cryptography had established, and because he needed another moment to haul himself down from the ledges of her high cheekbones, to retreat from the caves of her eyes.

In the cups, one after another, glistening disks rose, black without translucence.

I don't know why he's doin' it. Don't expect I ever will. But it sure is something, huh?

She was...that's the whole entirety.

How did the care worker die?' 'Apparently I murdered her.

Lo más intrigante de las tragedias es el modo en que las olvidamos

I was watching Iggy Pop videos on Youtube and trying to research miniature horse suicides.

I'd met him about five years back on the Case of the Kleptomaniacal Occultist

Well," he said, "I'm guessing your client is either a magician or a pervert. And I mean both of those terms with the highest respect.

To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.

No doubt Gervase Fen or Peter Wimsey would immediately have grasped the vital clue revealing the identity of the murderer. But to me it looked like wreckage.

I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

It was supposed to be an easy job. "Cake," Rick had said. Sammy Dovitz tossed his binoculars onto the passenger seat then shifted restlessly within the confines of the black KIA.