Quotes About Intrigue

Burckhardt fumbled through his notes. "Dakin and

Elizabeth Peters

All these lives, she said. All the stories we never know. (125)

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like.

Ellen Kushner

Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me–by one of you!

[On Rear Window:] I'll bet you that nine out of ten people, if they see a woman across the courtyard undressing for bed, or even a man puttering around in his room, will stay and look; no one turns away and says, "It's none of my business." They could pull down their blinds, but they never do; they stand there and look out.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Charles Darwin, on first seeing these waves breaking on Tierra del Fuego in 1833, wrote in his diary:

All the same I wouldn't laugh about it, if I was you," Défago added, looking over Simpson's shoulder into the shadows. "There's places in there nobody won't never see into — nobody knows what lives in there either.

Midway in my delight of the wild beauty, there crept, unbidden and unexplained, a curious feeling of disquietude, almost of alarm.

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.

It feels a little dangerous, to be so close to fairy tale.

Oamenii treceau pe trotuarul de deasupra. M? priveau ca ?i cum a? fi fost nebun?. Un pesc?ru? patrula pe autostrad?. M? privea ca ?i cum a? fi fost nebun?.

THERE was once a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house the people who were giving the dinner party.

The world is full of people looking for meaning in the shape of a bird not native to this country turning up in this country after all.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2003

so fascinated I couldn't stop.

The more I wonder, the more I love.

Mijn haar... dat is Alice' haar! Ik weet het zeker. Maar hoe... hoe zijn ze daaraan gekomen? William moet een lok hebben afgeknipt en hem hebben bewaard...

stubbornly unsolved, and of the laborious and ongoing task of decipherment and translation. For the curious amateur

He smiles then exhales a tiny tornado. I wonder if his ribs are big enough for how he feels. His body is radiating something, but I can't tell what.

0001 knew what would happen. If everything went the way she planned it to go and if each part of this giant machine she's assembled performed her role effectively, she knew very well where the knife would wind up, but how did she know Harris Blanchard would be there?

And so because he was half bastard, half gentleman, he asked for her bra