Intrigue Quotations

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

'Run' is exciting, about family secrets, the mystery surrounding them and the outdoor sport of parkour. The story itself is full of intrigue and action, but the parkour takes the story to another level. It was an absolutely incredible experience, working with experts from all over the country.

The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really believe in keeping your canvas very basic and sort of adding the accouterments from there. I look at creating intrigue with outfits through accessories.

I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ours. I saw that it was impossible she could stand as an independent power between us and Mexico without becoming the scene of intrigue of foreign powers, alike destructive of the peace and security of both Texas and ourselves.

Oh yeah, this is a national story. Being here at the beginning of this era, the curiosity, the intrigue of him being back in this (SEC East) division now more than ever, this is the epicenter of college football.

Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.

Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them.

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.

I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.

It is a very interesting piece, he says. It has been around a long time and this is a particularly good, vital and lively production full of laughs, gayety and a lot of wit. I think part of the intrigue of the play and the plot is the relationship with Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins. Pickering is always there as a kind of buffer, soother of egos, perhaps. And it's just a very good dramatic piece of theatre.

I think everybody is very, very intrigued. Where that intrigue leads we'll soon find out.

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.

The people love the people that I've represented as far as bringing intrigue into the area here.

There are a lot of constituencies we want to help: the players, the officials and the fans. This means more help for the officials, more strategy for the players and more intrigue for the fans. We need to marry tradition with innovation.

When you see it in performance, then you can see the intrigue and the scenes of danger and conspiracy.

I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

until an application is derived that adds true value and intrigue to this product.

With the speed and power of today's game, the time has come for tennis to benefit from new technology. This new breakthrough -- perhaps the most significant change to the game since the tiebreaker -- will improve line calls for players, while adding excitement and intrigue for fans and TV viewers.

I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading and enjoying romance novels at the time, the first two unpublished manuscripts I wrote were both romances. I sold my third novel, 'Call After Midnight,' to Harlequin Intrigue after submitting it unagented.

It was the point of no return. The intrigue reached such a level that I firmly decided ... that all of them had to go,

This new breakthrough -- perhaps the most significant change to the game since the tie-breaker -- will improve line calls for players, while adding excitement and intrigue for fans and TV viewers.

We all feel that today's announcement represents a major breakthrough for the sport. I think it's an opportunity for us to help officials and players while hopefully creating a bit more excitement and intrigue for all of our fans.

If you don't have anything for a girl you are recruiting to look at (it can be difficult). I can start looking at some more local girls now and hopefully intrigue them into coming here.

Hollywood, where an intrigue and a victim are born every time two people meet.

It's come full circle. There's more intrigue when people identify themselves as virgins or celibate or whatever. People have gotten bored with the endless display of graphic sex.

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

The Do You Know A Brawny Man contest is really exciting because it is actually being driven by consumer interest. The Brawny Man has a bit of mystique about him that seems to intrigue people.

A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven "sure-fire" literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

There was some intrigue in starting this program from scratch. Getting these girls from three high schools to come together as one and really work together has been great.

We feel this approach is an opportunity for us to help officials and players while hopefully creating a bit more excitement and intrigue for fans.

It's been a very successful spring. A lot has been covered ... taken in by these guys, and applied. That's all you can ask for. It's a very interesting mix. It has some intrigue to it.

There it stands, with a toss of curls and a flounce of skirts, a Carmen among the cities. the last of the Middle Eastern fleshpots. a junction of intrigue and speculation.

As love increases, prudence diminishes.

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.

God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

Going out there and promoting myself socially doesn't really intrigue me. I'd much rather have my work do it for me.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Every woman is at heart a rake.

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.