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

  • 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 (2015). “Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”, p.235, Open Road Media
  • I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.

    Art   Fun   Book  
  • Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.

    Real   Men   Support  
    Noah Webster (1823). “Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education: To which is Subjoined a Brief History of the United States”, p.19
  • As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

  • What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

    Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.192, Penguin
  • America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.

    War   Ambition   Color  
    Speech on Independence Day at the United States House of Representatives, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1821.
  • While the 2013 color of the year, PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald, served as a symbol of growth, renewal and prosperity, Radiant Orchid reaches across the color wheel to intrigue the eye and spark the imagination.

    Eye   Color   Years  
  • I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

    Writing   House   Magic  
  • The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

    Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.
  • I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me.

  • He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day." I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly." "Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them.

    Teacher   School   Mean  
  • I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

  • The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.

    Passion   Humility   Men  
    "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.
  • You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

    Vanity   Drug   Taste  
  • Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

    Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.50, Crown Archetype
  • God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.

    Want   Intrigue  
    Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.382, David C Cook
  • At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.

    Heart   Writing   Issues  
  • There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

    Animal   Men   Done  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.355
  • I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean.

    Mean   Discovery   Ideas  
  • The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key and bolt the door at once.

    Country   Keys   Texas  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

    Fans   Scared   Film  
  • There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

    Art   Sex   Real  
    "Steve Martin on Objects of Beauty". Interview with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. December 5, 2010.
  • As a general rule, it may be affirmed that the man who never intrigues for office may be most safely entrusted with office...Such a man cannot desire promotion unless he received it from the respectable part of the community, for he considers no other promotion to be honorable.

    Men   Office   Community  
  • More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

    Tragedy   Comedy   Source  
    "Family Is Ultimate Source Of Inspiration" by Joyce Maynard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.
  • She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.

    Oxygen   Talking   People  
    David Gilmour (2008). “Film Club: A True Story of a Father and a Son”, p.73, Dundurn
  • There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED THAT THIS AMBITION WOULD DRAW HIM INTO THE WEB OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE

    Ambition   Cities   Earth  
  • That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

  • A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.

    Party   Men   Views  
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