Quotes About Intrigue

Part of George R.R. Martin's brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

What I love about 'The Good Wife' is that it's not straightforward.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

I think everyone's always interested in playing a spy, right? That's something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it's just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

Bollywood is a strange world.

The secret world she had entered danced to a different song.

I'm haunted by things I've seen, but more haunted by those I haven't.

How unsettling is it, she wonders, to fool around with ferrets watching you? Their beady button eyes.

Let me ask you both something. Is there anything strange that's been going on around the inn lately? I mean besides the murder and theft.

Murder had come back to The Hatteras West Inn, and it was a most unwelcome guest.

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

They were appalled by his idea of making a spy service out of a scattershot collection of Wall Street brokers, Ivy League eggheads, soldiers of fortune, ad men, news men, stunt men, second-story men, and con men.

The Bureau had conducted uncounted break-ins and black-bag jobs on Hoover's say-so. The

donde el mayor indicador de la satisfacción laboral es que el trabajo te interese mentalmente.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue

Once you have discovered the physical facts of a situation, all that remains - no matter how improbable - is more interesting.

wasn't as important as the act of changing. People were charmed by differentness, they liked the attention, they were intrigued by novelty. This has come to be called the Hawthorne Effect.