Quotes About Intrigue

As the case stands.

As war is the system of government on the old construction, the animosity which nations reciprocally entertain, is nothing more than what the policy of their governments excites to keep up the spirit of the system. Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue, and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.

she sprayed the inside of the car with the fire extinguisher and tossed it on the floor in the back seat, left the keys in the ignition, and walked away. "What was that for?" asked Pete. "The spray is just carbon dioxide. It'll be gone in a little while, but so will the fingerprints. If somebody traces the plates, they'll have a problem because the car's not registered in Colorado. It might buy us some time to make them trace it in other states.

He felt his jaw again, wiggling it back and forth, then nodding. "And now you'll be tellin' me they started

A stone, a leaf, an unfound door.

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.

To survive, a story must arouse wonder.

India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.

Is Eight based on a real person? You describe her so intimately. It's like I'm peeking in on something I shouldn't see." "Do you think Eight's real?" "Definitely," she said, nodding. "Then she is." "That's not an answer." "I know." He grinned.

If you knew what I wanted to do," he said, "you'd call security.

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

Across the hall, Paul was either fucking the girl or murdering her, I couldn't tell which. I smelled mothballs. The afghan was going to have to go.

Agents and spies playing deep and dangerous games of intelligence and counterintelligence also soon made their way to the Ritz.

In the gray areas of the French occupation, there is always this complication: the bad guys weren't always German. Sometimes they were French. Or British. Or American.

never thinking. And then it blew up in his face.' Tex leans forward, the stench of soda-masked booze saturating the air. 'He was expecting a reward. But when he started to see what was happening to the witnesses …' The famous 'murdered witnesses' to the JFK assassination,

the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories

Shhh," said Serge. "The flashback is starting…

Is he dead?" "Not sure," said Serge, "but blood from the ears rarely precedes a big dance number.

I think the MMA and boxing are different audiences. I think it's a different intrigue. There's no reason you can't be a fan of both; why does it have to be one or the other?

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.

'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow.

I love noir, quite obviously.

I wanted to work with Sriram Raghavan, the master of noir.

You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.'