Quotes About Intrigue

I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.

Crime is sexy.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

It's hard to shock people, especially when people want to know, like, spoilers and stuff like that.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

In my career, I've been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with them and get to know them. That's what I'm always looking for and trying to do.

It's amazing to me - what is this love affair we have with bad guys? With the bad boy in high school, with the anti-hero, et cetera, et cetera? Because I was always just a very nice boy. I didn't get it.

Horace Walpole, the writer and politician, meanwhile, once saw Mademoiselle la Chevalière d'Éon, known in her day as a transvestite-diplomat-spy, teaching fencing to the Cosways' guests in the midst of a party.16,17

The UFO community?" I said. "Why would government spies want to infiltrate that?" "Oh, Jon," said Steven. "Don't be naive.

Aveva degli occhi azzurri penetranti e intelligenti che avrebbero certamente inchiodato i miei con la forza e la fissità del loro sguardo, se io non li avessi deliberatamente evitati, preferendo soffermarmi sulla carnagione leggermente screziata e sui suoi folti capelli ramati.

Qué hermosa es siempre la cara que no hemos visto.

She could clearly perceive the contours of her obsession with him. It would have been sensible to tear it from her skull, but the object had grown too large to be removed without splitting her head open. Despite its sick enormity, it was also too beautiful to her.

Impossibility is attractive. You know, the safety of dead-ended things.

Who's Norma Jean Mortenson?" "Marilyn Monroe!" "Who's Marilyn Monroe?" "Sex!

How, after all, can one miss something one has never known?

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

Don't go on multiplying the mysteries,' Unwin said. 'They should be kept simple. Bear in mind Poe's purloined letter, bear in mind Zangwill's locked room.' 'Or made complex,' replied Dunraven. 'Bear in mind the universe.

I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.

Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon.

She wore a pleated skirt, a white cotton blouse, and simple black shoes with knee high stockings. At the arc of each step, the skirt would rise to expose a few inches of her taut thighs. Neither Earl nor Duke could recall what Chad was wearing.