Quotes About Intrigue

Why do lovely faces haunt us so? Do extraordinary flowers have evil roots?

There are authors who intigue me because of all I have heard and read about them, because their lives interest me, yet I cannot read their works. Stendhal is one, and the author of Tristram Shandy another. But perhaps the superb example in this respect is the Marquis de Sade.

The name Rebecca excited me. I had always wanted to meet a woman called Rebecca—and not Becky.

With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

I get recognized for 'The Killing' all the time. People yell out, 'I hope you didn't kill her!' They yell that out in the street.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.

My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.'

I had travelled to a lot of cities in Europe before, but Prague was special. It held a mysterious attraction for me for during the time I was there.

At the heart of the best documentaries, there is a journey of inquiry - someone who travels out into the world, comes back with a story, and who then finds meaning in it, and intrigue; someone who tells you about something you never quite knew before, or in a way you hadn't quite thought about.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and piecing it all together. I love the treasure hunt aspect of it, the thrill of the chase.

I turned on 'One Tree Hill,' heard the opening song, and went, 'I got to know whose voice that is.'

I think origin stories are a great way to get people reinvested in a story. I mean, we originally accepted 'Star Trek' without knowing anything about Kirk or Spock. All we needed to know was that it took place in the future.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.

A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.

I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidden beneath her every breath. I wanted to unravel her with my hands.

A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen...

Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.

It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someone's soul without them knowing.