Norman Bates Quotes

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

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

It's not just that," Chief Porter said. "A guy who once would have raped and killed a woman, now a lot of times he also has to cut off her lips and mail them to us or take her eyes for a souvenir and keep them in his freezer at home. There's more flamboyant craziness these days." Giving the buttered cinnamon roll a reprieve, Ozzie said, "Maybe it's all these superhero movies with all their supervillains. Some psychopath who used to be satisfied raping and murdering, these days he thinks that he should be in a Batman movie, he wants to be the Joker or the Penguin." "No real-life bad guy wants to be the Penguin," I assured him. "Norman Bates was happy just dressing up like his mother and stabbing people," Chief Porter said, "but Hannibal Lecter has to cut off their faces and eat their livers with fava beans. The role models have become more intense. ~ Dean Koontz

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. ~ Robert Bloch

Psychopaths don't act like Hannibal Lecter or Norman Bates. They come off like Hugh Grant, in his most adorable role. ~ Dave Cullen

I was creeped out, though and dragged a chair into the bathroom and wedged it against the door so no one could come in without me knowing. That was the very reason why I had a see-through vinyl shower curtain. Norman Bates was never going to get the best of me.
-Jory ~ Mary Calmes

Norman Bates will never die... ~ Robert Bloch

She'd stumbled into Norman Bates' attic. There in the bathroom was a gaudy heart shaped pink bathtub, and standing proudly next to it was a bear. Holding a clean white towel draped over his arm like a waiter. ~ Erin McCarthy

Lila closed her mouth, but the scream continued. It was the insane scream of an hysterical woman, and it came from the throat of Norman Bates. ~ Robert Bloch

This guy is a monster, Mike." "Yeah he is, but he looks like anyone. He can fit in, and he knows how to talk to people. He's not the standard profile of the shy boy killer. He's not afraid to talk to women." "So he's not Norman Bates," Julia said. ~ Tobias Kloner

I kept driving for a while, then stopped on the side of the road. Shining my brights on the road in front of me, I watched out for Leatherface while dialing Marlboro Man on my car phone. My pulse was rapid out of sheer terror and embarrassment; my face was hot. Lost and helpless on a county road the same night I'd emotionally decompensated in his kitchen--this was not exactly the image I was dying to project to this new man in my life. But I had no other option, short of continuing to drive aimlessly down one generic road after another or parking on the side of the road and going to sleep, which really wasn't an option at all, considering Norman Bates was likely wandering around the area. With Ted Bundy. And Charles Manson. And Grendel.
Marlboro Man answered, "Hello?" He must have been almost asleep.
"Um…um…hi," I said, squinting in shame.
"Hey there," he replied.
"This is Ree," I said. I just wanted to make sure he knew.
"Yeah…I know," he said.
"Um, funniest thing happened," I continued, my hands in a death grip on the steering wheel. "Seems I got a little turned around and I'm kinda sorta maybe perhaps a little tiny bit lost."
He chuckled. "Where are you?"
"Um, well, that's just it," I replied, looking around the utter darkness for any ounce of remaining pride. "I don't really know."
Marlboro Man assumed control, telling me to drive until I found an intersection, then read him the numbers on the small green county road sign, numb ~ Ree Drummond

A few days later she sent him a two page, single-spaced, typewritten letter preaching to him about the Catholic stand on premarital sex, and especially condemning the use of that horrendous tool of the devil, the seed-killing prophylactic. Don't worry. Those facetious words weren't hers. I paraphrased. This boy was more browbeaten by mommy than Norman Bates. ~ Dan Skinner

The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor between person and machine, one in which misconceptions can arise on either side. ~ Donald A. Norman

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. ~ Norman Cousins

How perfectly whimsical. I expect we'll be roasting marshmallows over the fireplace and singing happy sing-alongs round about midnight, yes? Perhaps someone could point me in the direction of the dormitories. ~ G. Norman Lippert

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. ~ Norman Spinrad

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Think positively about yourself ... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before. ~ Norman Mailer

Norman Rockwell saved my life. ~ Jane Allen Petrick

The indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth. ~ Norman Mailer

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things. ~ Norman O. Brown

The best way to get your audience larger and more consistent is to be more divisive and more radical and criticize those who cater to or kowtow to other forces. ~ Norman Ornstein

Emerson said, "The soul contains the event that shall befall it. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

The challenge of good men is not to thwart change, but to mold it as it comes, so that it may benefit rather than destroy. ~ G. Norman Lippert

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees. ~ Jessye Norman

When you're having sex again, it makes you wonder why you weren't before. What could possibly have been bad enough to make you stop doing THAT? ~ Matthew Norman

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

She flapped her hands, anxious energy coursing through her. "How can you be so calm?"
He got to his feet, unfolding with an easy grace. He held out a hand, his dark eyes focused solemnly on hers. "Come with me."
"For what?"
"That's part of the lesson." Was it her imagination, or did a twinkle of humor stir in those eyes? "Center yourself, and grab onto the here and now."
That made no sense - what was he now, Sir Medieval Zen Master? But she slipped her hand into his strong, calloused one. He hauled her up until she bumped into his chest. With a finger under her chin, he tilted her face until she looked in his eyes.
"Listen to the world around you. Hear the birds? Hear the small animals scurrying? You are in this moment, this moment only, and sometimes that's all you can do, all you can be." His finger pulled away, brushing against her skin, and he tapped her nose, stepping away. ~ Angela Quarles

I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward - there were definitely some creepy vibes there. ~ Norman Reedus

Pastor Bates was a careful reader of theology, literature and history. He delighted especially in Gibbon's woeful treatment of Christians in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, perusing the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters routinely and with glee. He enjoyed brilliant heretics as only the confidently faithful can, seeing in Gibbon the inspired rantings of a cheerleader working himself into a frenzy for a losing team, getting especially rabid come the dreaded fourth quarter, when Jesus begins running up the score. ~ Scott M. Morris

Yet I murdered the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and that is an equal part of how I think about myself. ~ Howard Norman

The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Never underestimate the power of social pressures on behavior, causing otherwise sensible people to do things they know are wrong and possibly dangerous. ~ Donald A. Norman

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life. ~ Norman Mailer

Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature. ~ Tom Robbins

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality. ~ Norman Mailer

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense
as the love of two narcissists for each other. ~ Norman Mailer

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. ~ James Norman Hall

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled. ~ Norman Mailer

Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go. ~ Norman Maclean

Life is an adventure in forgiveness ~ Norman Cousins

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share. ~ Norman MacCaig

None of us were kidding when we said we wanted to have enough kids to make a Quidditch team, were we? ~ G. Norman Lippert

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program. ~ Danica Patrick

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end. ~ Norman Lear

Why should Americans go on with their lives as normal, worrying about calories and hair loss, while other people are worrying about where they are going to get their next piece of bread? ~ Norman Finkelstein

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. ~ Norman Macleod

We can't let it be controlled by the sorts of people who believe Voldemort was just some misunderstood sweetie who wanted everybody to be pals. ~ G. Norman Lippert

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you ~ Norman Vincent Peale

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science. ~ Norman Lamm

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence. ~ Norman Cousins

Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit. ~ Norman Mailer

The big question about the hunter-gatherers, therefore, does not seem to be 'How did they progress towards the higher level of an agricultural and politicised society?' but 'What persuaded them to abandon the secure, well-provided and psychologically liberating advantages of their primordial lifestyle?'.1 ~ Norman Davies

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all. ~ Norman Finkelstein

Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine. ~ Norman Vincent Peale