#intrigue

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#am #amazed #fact #i #i am

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#fascinated #great #intrigued #lives #obsessed

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance. ↗

— David Brin

#advance #along #begin #book #characters

To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mystery #sherlock-holmes #beauty

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#passion #romance #love

How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth? ↗

— Jandy Nelson

#jandy-nelson #life #love #the-sky-is-everywhere #life

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

— Walter Annenberg

#easy #enthusiasm #find #interest #intrigue

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bit #down #feel #grumpy #i

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#angeles #anyone #believe #book #going

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#changes #chiefs #exciting #first #gaining