“ In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
- 256
“ Hollywood, where an intrigue and a victim are born every time two people meet. ”
- Terry Moore- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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. ”
- Jan Morris- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star-I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie. ”
- Jason Lee- Copy
- 358
“ I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country. ”
- John Hughes- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience. ”
- Azel Backus- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it. ”
- Shana Alexander- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Next to entertaining or impressive talk, a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people. ”
- Florence Hurst Harriman- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today… What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them. ”
- William Allen White- Copy
- 3K
“ It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. ”
- Greil Marcus- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I was standing in the old Western Studio 3 in Los Angeles looking at record albums. I saw a Johnny Rivers album with a song whose title intrigued me. I didn't know if 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' was about the town or about the mythological bird coming out of the ashes. ”
- Glen Campbell- Copy
- 3K
“ No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game.... It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
- 1.2K
“ What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know. I believed all those love stories-the hero was the hero-because that's what I grew up with. I loved the romance and the roses, but when it came to a more realistic life, I would back away. ”
- Loretta Young- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations. ”
- Rupert Holmes- Copy
- 123
“ We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck… But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ”
- Ellen Goodman- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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? ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats. ”
- David Cronenberg- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large… ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 3.2K
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