Quotes About Intrigue

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely.

All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma.

What is it like to get in someone's head and hunt them from inside their eyes? That's so freaky to me.

Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.

All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.

I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

I was hooked in before hacking was even illegal.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

There are certain images that always haunt me.

I feel ashamed of how many houses I've actually crept inside of when they were up for sale. I'm not a snoop, but I love looking and imagining.

I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

As a magician or anyone fascinated by magic, the Houdini story is a really impressive one.

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

there was much to amuse her. Secretly she gloated upon her power over this most fearsome monarch....

You've just read of a woman remembering an orange thrown through a window, without knowing why she remembers this. You will either remember reading this and know why you remember reading this, or you will remember reading this and not know why you remember reading this, or you will not remember reading this, possibly forever.

I'd never heard of a holy man named after a llama. I'd never heard of a great, gaping vagina. And I didn't know a thing about the black boomerang of karma. all I knew for sure was this: I had been plunked into a strange, perfumed world that, as far as I could tell, seemed to be run entirely by women.

Rivayete göre ?eytan, Mesih ?sa'ya Asya yakas?ndaki Çaml?ca tepelerinden, "dünyan?n ve içindeki krall?klar?n bütün ihti?am? budur" derken Bo?az'?, Haliç'i ve Bizans akropolisini göstermi?tir. Buras? kusursuz ve bu yüzden sürekli yeni ba?tan hayat bulan, ba?tan ç?kar?c? ?ey olarak tasvir edilecek bir yerdi.