Quotes About Intrigue

There is this place called the Tower of London and I think if I wrote about any Royal figure as recent as the 20th Century I might end up there!

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.

The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.

I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.

Secrets travel fast in Paris.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Why would there be a morgue in a sports center?" Charlie asked. "Because Soylent Green is people?

Hold on," she murmured, and he briefly wondered if she ever used that particular tone of voice in bed. Mitch snorted, trying to stop where his thoughts were headed—again. "Yeah, yeah. Show me what ya got, sweet—Mother of God Almighty!

This is going to be big." When Coop's head tipped to the side like a confused schnauzer, he added, "The hotel room of some big-time penis was just violently invaded." "It's pianist.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

It isn't about the looks; gorgeous women get dumped every day. It isn't about intelligence. Women of all types, from brilliant women to women with the IQ equivalent of plant life, pull it off every day. It's about mystery and learning how to create intrigue.

Talking about the "relationship" too much takes away the element of the "unknown" and thus the mystery.

Ignore him and he is intrigued. Make him the center of attention all the time and he runs.

The more independent you are of him, the more interested he will be.

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.