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I never imagined so many people would be enjoying it this much. I wrote this book essentially as a group of fictional characters exploring ideas that I found personally intriguing.
dan brown— "Decoding the Da Vinci Code author" BBC (7 April 2006)
The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable.
k. barry sharpless— Nobel lecture, 2001
If you think being dysfuncted and damaged, strapped to your baggage, dirty, ruined and hurt like critical, cynical, scathing, if you're lost or have come up missing, scarred and scared (or pretending you aren't), when you think that's all you've got, it's not. The sadness you wear around like a trophy is intriguing at most, but it's miserable, and about as original as a frat boy with a visor cap. So step up.
buddy wakefield— Moving Forward
The emphasis on flora, fauna, and beings makes the exhibit a most intriguing and artistic one for it brings forth those strange memories and psychic feelings that mystify and fascinate all of us. (remark in 1957)
william baziotes— In: 'William Baziotes'; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Barbara Hess, Taschen, Köln, 2006, p. 34
But it's always intriguing to discover the ways in which desire fuels the systems of the world .
samuel r. delany— p. 257 (The Mad Man (1994))
When Bonner writes that “natural selection for optimal feeding is then presumed to be the cause of non-motility in all forms,” I can't help suspecting that some plants might do even better if they could walk from shade to sun but the inherited constraints of design never permitted a trial of this intriguing option.
stephen jay gould— "The Ghost of Protagoras", p. 67
Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance for somebody whose brains were "all there."
upton sinclair— Section 2 (100%: the Story of a Patriot (1920))
I was surprised to see that there was indeed religiously sanctioned violence in it , as well as some others things which I found disturbing. But it was all intriguing, because I was entranced by the shorter, poetic chapters. I thought it very striking that this beauty could co-exist with clear mandates for warfare and violence against unbelievers .
robert spencer— "Jihad will destroy us if we don't act now." at "catholicherald.co.uk, features opinion, 2007
