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Quotes About Intrigue

It's there in your face, all of it, the way it rarely shows in any face. What do I see? Something lazy, sexy and insatiable.
~ Don DeLillo
If this makes me sexier then where are you going?
~ Don DeLillo
Something lurked inside the truth.
~ Don DeLillo
Everyone was a spook or dupe or asset, a double, courier, cutout or defector, or was related to one. We were all linked in a vast and rhythmic coincidence, a daisy chain of rumor, suspicion and secret wish.
~ Don DeLillo
The police had consulted Adele T. on a number of occasions and she had led them to two bludgeoned bodies, a Syrian in a refrigerator and a cache of marked bills totaling six hundred thousand dollars, although in each instance, the report concluded, the police had been looking for something else. The American mystery deepens.
~ Don DeLillo
I liked to watch Orest eat. He inhaled food according to aerodynamic principles.
~ Don DeLillo
This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.
~ Donald Barthelme
I have to admit we are mired in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.
~ Donald Barthelme
It seemed to proclaim itself a mystery, but one there was no point in solving - an ongoing low-grade mystery.
~ Donald Barthelme
I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.
~ Donald Barthelme
we are going to have to use words that pique our customers' curiosity.
~ Donald Miller
one-liner makes people lean in rather than tune out at cocktail party.
~ Donald Miller
If the header of your website, the first words of your proposal, or even the first thing you say in a keynote is meant to pique curiosity, the next idea you communicate should answer the "but how.
~ Donald Miller
The king and queen wanted to be done with him, although Louis seemed pleased to see him soon after the motley invasion. But the queen's blue eyes remained cold. "It would be better to perish," she quipped, "than to be saved by M. de Lafayette.
~ Donald Miller
What makes these loglines complete and effective? Two things: imagination and intrigue. They summarize the movie in a way that a viewer can imagine the story, and they do so with enough intrigue that they make the reader want to watch the film.
~ Donald Miller
We'll help you create one-liners that pique a customer's curiosity, wireframe websites and landing pages that further intrigue them about the problems you solve, lead generators that enlighten them as to why your products and services will work for them, email campaigns that establish trust with customers, and sales emails and calls to action that ask for a commitment without making you sound like a sleazy salesperson.
~ Donald Miller
A real blow to OGPU came from Bukharin in autumn 1924:
~ Donald Rayfield
I'M TRYNA SEE DA WHOLE TIDDY SON
~ Donald Trump
It is not so much the things we know that terrify us as it is the things we do not know, the things that break all known laws and rules, the things that come upon us unaware and shatter the pleasant dream of our little world.
~ Unknown
Is this what retirement would be for him? he wondered. Sticking his nose into other people's business whenever he had the feeling that something wasn't consistent in a story? Must every death come in a tidy package before ex-Commissario Brunetti would leave it alone and let people get on with their lives?
~ Donna Leon
And that, Brunetti realized, was beginning to interest him a great deal, for the answer to his death must lie there, as it always did. Santore
~ Donna Leon
was he trapped in a nest of vipers able to worm themselves into people's sympathies? Was he another one?
~ Donna Leon
Cubitum eamus? What? Nothing.
~ Donna Tartt
I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and what music they listened to, wanted to look under their beds and in their secret drawers and night tables and inside the pockets of their coats.
~ Donna Tartt