Janet Leigh Quotes

Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body. ~ Max Brooks

Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is. ~ Janet Leigh

Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please.
Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates
Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated. ~ Janet Leigh

and I have seen them all, stars such as John Wayne (Jet Pilot with Janet Leigh), or George C. Scott (Not With My Wife, You Don't with Virna Lisi), or William Holden (The Bridges at Toko-Ri with Grace Kelly) all fly with their visors up and their oxygen masks dangling loose. I assume this is to let the cameras record them acting. No real pilot flies like that. Without a visor, the high altitude glare would blind me and ~ Ed Cobleigh

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you. ~ Tippi Hedren

We are the products of our past ... a web of complexities. ~ Janet Leigh

I don't know what it is I exude.
But whatever it is, it's whatever I am! ~ Janet Leigh

Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time. ~ Janet Flanner

Janet who said excellent! in answer to everything and drank coffee from a pink mug that said Janet. ~ Donna Tartt

My legs gave way and the Darkling caught me up against his body with one surprisingly strong arm.
"I guess you only look like a mouse," he whispered in my ear, and then beckoned to one of his personal guard. "Take her," he said, handing me over to the oprichnik who reached out his arm to support me. I felt myself flush at the indignity of being handed over like a sack of potatoes, but I was too shaky and confused to protest. Blood was running down my arm from the cut the Darkling had given me. ~ Leigh Bardugo

The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness. ~ Leigh Hunt

Wylan hadn't realized it then, but Kaz had known his true identity all along. Dirtyhands kept tabs on anyone who took up re
sidence in the Barrel, and he'd placed Wylan under Dregs protection, certain that one day a rich mercher's son would come in handy.
He had no illusions about why Kaz had looked out for him, but he also knew he never would have survived this long without his help. And Kaz didn't care if he could read. Kaz and the others teased him, but they'd given him a chance to prove himself. They valued the things he could do instead of punishing him for the things he couldn't. ~ Leigh Bardugo

I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience. ~ Chyler Leigh

He'd loved her, he had. And he knew she loved him, he knew it! But it wasn't enough. She couldn't have imagined such a thing was possible. Love wasn't enough ~ Janet Fitch

Uh-oh," Ranger said. "you been reading those Nancy Drew books again? ~ Janet Evanovich

Like calls to like. I'd sense it when the Hummingbird entered the Unsea, but I'd been too afraid to embrace it. This time, I didn't fight. I let go of my fear, my guilt, my shame. There was darkness inside me. He had put it there, and I would no longer deny it. The volcra, the nichevo'ya, they were my monsters, all of them. And he was my monster too.
"My power is yours", I repeated. His arms tightened around me. "And yours is mine," I whispered against his lips. ~ Leigh Bardugo

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. ~ Leigh Hunt

There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego.
With a two-by-four?
Only as a last resort and never in public. ~ Lora Leigh

Meredith's father, the composer, who shot himself in this house. Came all the way from Vienna to shoot himself in LA. Escaped the Nazis but not himself. ~ Janet Fitch

Such is the dilemma of the atheist. Who to thank? It's a terrible condition, to feel one's heart swelling with the wonders of our world and yet have nobody to thank for it. It makes a man feel thwarted. ~ Janet Turpin Myers

Why are you taking this so personally?"

"Wouldn't you?"

"I have no idea. I've always been beautiful."

"And humble too? ~ Leigh Bardugo

A complete stranger
a giant pancake, no less
has just appeared in their home," Boyd said. "Why isn't anyone reacting to this? Wouldn't they be screaming in terror?"
"They love pancakes," Stan said.
"What would they do if a fried chicken leg walked in?"
"I'm not sure a chicken leg could walk in," said the script supervisor, a lady who wore three layers of shirts and sucked on a pencil as if it were a pacifier. "I suppose it could hop."
Stan looked over his shoulder at her. "let me handle this." He turned back to Boyd. "The family knows you. You're not just another pancake off the street. You're a celebrity pancake, the Jay Leno of breakfast foods. Would anyone throw Leno out of their house?"
"Okay, assuming you're right, I'm a pancake asking this family to eat me. Am I suicidal or simply filled with self-loathing?"
"Take your pick," Stan said. "Whatever will get you through the scene. ~ Janet Evanovich

I don't mean to be critical of the Trenton police," I said, "but wouldn't you think someone could catch this goddamn rabbit? He's riding around, handing out photos. ~ Janet Evanovich

I seem to be a victim of my own wishes where you are concerned. ~ Leigh Bardugo

You were not wrong to dare. ~ Leigh Bardugo

every other aspect of his life. He had the ~ Janet Evanovich

Street law dictated that for a parley of this kind each lieutenant be seconded by two of his foot soldiers and that they all be unarmed. Parley. The word felt like a deception - strangely prim, an antique. No matter what street law decreed, this night smelled like violence. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. ~ Janet Yellen

Amen" Lula said and she made the sign of the cross.
"I thought you were Baptist."
"Yeah, but we don't got any hand signals for an occasion like this. ~ Janet Evanovich

Yeah. Almost as surprising as when you nailed me with your father's car."
In the interest of avoiding confrontation, I felt compelled to explain. I didn't feel obliged to do it convincingly. "It was an accident. My foot slipped."
"That was no accident. You jumped the goddamn curb and followed me down the sidewalk. ~ Janet Evanovich

It's such a liability to love another person. ~ Janet Fitch

One afternoon a girl walked by in a bikini and my cousin Janet scoffed, "Look at the hips on her." I panicked. What about the hips? Were they too big? Too small? What were my hips? I didn't know hips could be a problem. I thought there was just fat or skinny. This was how I found out that there are an infinite number of things that can be "incorrect" on a woman's body. ~ Tina Fey

But all he could think of was Inej. She had to live. She had to have made it out of the Ice Court. And if she hadn't, then he had to live to rescue her. ~ Leigh Bardugo

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community. ~ Janet Reno

On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night." ~ Vivien Leigh

He stood leaning on his cane, hair neatly pushed back from his pale brow, a black glass boy of deadly edges. ~ Leigh Bardugo

I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh [Bowery] and I were associated. ~ Boy George

Maybe it feels easier that way, just being invisible instead of always worrying what people think of you. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Hell. I saw Cassie running for that car and you know what ran through my mind, Merrie?" he asked her painfully.
Merinus sighed deeply. "That you had failed." She surprised him with that answer. "You couldn't protect your own, and now you hadn't protected Cassie either."
"Yeah," he breathed out roughly. "But how did you know?"
"Because it's the same thing Sherra told me before she locked herself in her room, ~ Lora Leigh

Trickery is not my native tongue, but I may learn to speak it yet. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Don't start doing that."

"What?"

"Agreeing with me," said Jesper. "Sure path to destruction. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Do you know why I come here, priest?"
He gave a dismissive wave, his impatience showing through. "It reminds you of home." My eyes met Mal's briefly.
"You should know by now," I said, "an orphan has no home. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Little did I know this girl would find some long-forgotten corner inside my heart and crawl into it. Imprint herself on my soul and refuse to leave. ~ Adriane Leigh

Somebody'd better pray for him, don't you think? He IS a lost soul.
~Pastor John Linton ~ Janet Sketchley

You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there. ~ Janet McTeer

Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing. ~ Leigh Allison Wilson

It distressed him seeing her so upset. And his distress over her distress distressed him even more. Which made no sense being that she continued to lie to him, even knowing what he had at stake.
She was a devil of a confusing woman. ~ Leigh LaValle

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing. ~ Janet Suzman

...'beard' isn't really a superpower. ~ Amy Leigh Strickland

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success. ~ Leigh Mitchell Hodges

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show. ~ Rachael Leigh

There will be nothing left,' I whispered.
'No," he said gently as he folded me in his arms. He pressed a kiss to the top of my hair. 'I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no other shelter but me. ~ Leigh Bardugo

We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. ~ Janet Holmes A Court

I try hard not to make the same mistake more than 3 or 4 times in a row. ~ Janet Evanovich

No one to notice
No one to stare
No one to compromise with
No one to care ~ Isabel Aanya Leigh

He'd wait. I turned to go into the house and he pulled me back. His hands slid under my shirt and my breath caught. The wire, ~ Janet Evanovich