Quotes About Intrigue

She wasn't beautiful in the way Bombay Silk was, but she was sexier, more intriguing, handsome in the way some women can be.

Stavano con lui per ore, accasciati per terra - punti interrogativi accoccolati in una pozza di trucioli di legno - e si chiedevano come mai Velutha sembrava sempre sapere quali forme levigate lo aspettassero all'interno di un pezzo di legno.

handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

I mean, handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

Dagny and Fransisco d'Anconia? she said, smiling ruefully, in answer to the curiosity of her friends. Oh no, it's not a romance. It's an international industrial cartel of some kind.

John Jay would offer the best analysis later, to George Washington: "There is as much intrigue in this state house as in the Vatican, but as little secrecy as in a boarding school.

Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.

It was an odd thing about Boston, Crown officials observed. A confidential, early-morning insinuation could blossom into common knowledge by evening. Yet when 342 crates of tea immersed themselves in water, no one had seen a thing.

She was beautiful all right, beautiful in a way that was at once seductive, demonic, and raspberry.

Quando si riuscì, almeno entro una certa misura, a dare una prima risposta al problema, risultò, come poi doveva puntualmente ripetersi nel campo degli studi solaristici, che la spiegazione non faceva che sostituire un enigma con un altro, a volte ancor più sconcertante.

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

Vane watched her reaction from under heavy lids, watched flaring passion light her eyes. Sparks of pure gold flashed in the hazel depths as he gently kneaded, then sent his fingers gliding over her silken skin. He knew he should kiss her, distract her, from what came next- but the compulsion to witness, to know her reaction as she learned what he would do, as he filled his senses with her, waxed strong.

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I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.

When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.

So, I heard you're this ninja or something.

Her whisper smelled like cranberry juice and vodka.

Please don't try to figure out who she is because then you might figure

It was the way she said it that started me feeling.

There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).