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Quotes About Intrigue

The main thing is, the audience should be curious to know what's going to happen next.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ella lo llamó con una sonrisa coqueta, último requisito para concluir que esa joven podía robarle hasta los pensamientos.
~ Isabel Allende
Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep.
~ Isabel Allende
Hi. I'm on the run from the FBI, Interpol, and a Las Vegas criminal gang," I announced bluntly, to avoid any misunderstandings. "Congratulations," he said.
~ Isabel Allende
he came to see me whenever he needed to flee a disaster related to women or money. His presence was a typhoon that completely upset my well-regulated existence and the peace of mind that I felt in his absence.
~ Isabel Allende
Ya sé lo que está pensando, jefe: el primer sospechoso es el cónyuge, pero no nos sirve, porque David Rosen tiene una buena coartada. —¿Cuál? —Se murió de un paro cardíaco en 1988.
~ Isabel Allende
No me explico qué atrajo a Willie, que tiene un pasado de mujeres altas y rubias, a mí me atrojo su historia.
~ Isabel Allende
algunas concubinas, mientras los ministros dudaban
~ Isabel Allende
With Led Zeppelin, it has always been that mystique of how the music is done - how it works, why it works.
~ Jimmy Page
I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
~ Krzysztof Kieslowski
I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.'
~ Dan Fogler
Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia's intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.
~ Tim Cope
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
~ Helen Maclnness
England is a nation of voyeurs.
~ Nigel Newton
Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.
~ Theodore Tilton
The Devil's boots don't creak.
~ Scottish Proverb
'A Spy in the House', the first of Y. S. Lee's 'The Agency' novels, is pure confection, an historical romp through England at the height of The Great Stink that imagines a secret spy ring for women tucked away where few notice but powerful factions clamor for their services.
~ Sarah Weinman
There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.
~ Elif Batuman
I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.
~ Chino Moreno
There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.
~ Alexandra Daddario
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
~ Ira Glass
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
~ Ernest Gaines