Quotes About Intrigue

thumb the safety off my Glock as I near the foyer.

Quindi esistono davvero creature che ti mangiano?» «Non in questo ripostiglio» rispose sua madre, con inquietante evasività.

Good. Now I'm going to go sit down at the table before P.K. uncovers the nuclear launch codes.

How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

Prowl along the fringes of residential neighborhoods until you find the word "sucker" scratched into a tree or fencepost, usually with an arrow indicating the proper house.

If you see Ingrid, don't look at her. Walk the other way." I give him a two-dollar coin and he returns to the background, like he's part of an endless line of characters provided by a talent agency.

The way Mr. Ronan had acted seemed to be of a piece with this woman's behaviour. I felt a need to see where she was leading. It was none of her business, so I lied.

Before we move forward, your first step should be to summon up your inner sadist. You don't have an inner sadist? Bullshit… Everyone wants to witness a train wreck, even if they peek at it through their fingers. Actually, you will need to imagine that the train is full of children and baby pandas as it smashes into a bus teeming with elderly churchgoers on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

Dora pushed the mirror, sending it shattering to the floor. "Whoops." She turned to face Dee and pulled off her dark glasses to reveal the mirrors of her eyes. "You should go now. You've got about three seconds." Dee didn't quite make it out of the shop before it exploded.

The sliding glass door opened and Isis and Osiris appeared. They were dressed in plain white ceramic armor and were each carrying two swords, one in each hand. "They look like they just stepped out of Star Wars ," Josh muttered. He began to hum the Imperial March under his breath.

Areop-Enap was ontwaakt... 'Je kunt nu maar beter uit de weg gaan,' zei ze met een verrassend welluidende stem.

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

To be fair he is Lord Byron," Jane said. "I don't know many people who haven't slept with him at one time or another." -- Jane Fairfax

Write your screenplays to raise, develop, and answer one central dramatic question so that your reader or audience will stay hooked.

There was a plot against him.

What has he gotten himself into with the Russians?" pressed Ailes. "Mostly," said Bannon, "he went to Russia and he thought he was going to meet Putin. But Putin couldn't give a shit about him. So he's kept trying." "He's Donald," said Ailes. "It's a magnificent thing," said Bannon, who had taken to regarding Trump as something like a natural wonder, beyond explanation.

If you fuck with the intel community they will figure out a way to get back at you and you'll have two or three years of a Russian investigation, and every day something else will leak out.

That was almost his appeal: he was what he was. Twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul.

I now understand what it is like to be in the court of the Tudors," reflected Bannon.

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

Il m'a regardé comme si je sortais d'une boîte de Cracker Jacks.

So let me see-you've got a boyfriend, a not boyfriend, and a secret admirer. " He shook his head at me. "Girl, no wonder someone tried to run you down.

Secrets work on me like splinters. I like them out.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.