Hitchcockian Way Quotes & Sayings

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims. — Charles Buxton

He was no Hitchcockian protagonist, embroiled in a conspiracy before he knew what was happening. He had embroiled himself, knowing full well that it contained an element of risk. The machine was already in motion, gaining too much forward momentum for him to stop it. Tengo himself was one of its gears - and an important one at that. He could hear the machine's low groaning, and feel its implacable motion. — Haruki Murakami

Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'? — Sarah Vowell

The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it. — Lauren Beukes

the gift is having a daughter more gentle
than you are, whose laughter is finer
than yours. — Charles Bukowski

Apart from, of course, the fact that the world was an amazing interesting place which they both wanted to enjoy for as long as possible, there were few things that the two of them agreed on, but they did see eye to eye about some of those people who, for one reason or another, were inclined to worship the Prince of Darkness. Crowley always found them embarrassing. You couldn't actually be rude to them, but you couldn't help feeling about them the same way that, say, a Vietnam veteran would feel about someone who wears combat gear to Neighborhood Watch meetings. — Terry Pratchett

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature". — Ian Gardner

My mom is very religious and she said, 'Whatever you think about all the time, that's what you worship.' If that's the case I'd like everyone to pop open their Diet Coke cans and turn to page 37 of their People Magazines. In this holy scripture, we read the parable of Ms. Valerie Bertinelli. — Maria Bamford

In John 6 we read that when great multitudes went after Him, He told them three times that unless they were willing to pay the price, they could not be His followers. — Billy Graham

It's good netiquette to avoid information that offends or challenge errors when confronted. — David Chiles

The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul ... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart. — Maya Angelou

Never wear a shoe that doesn't fits you. — Tai

Staying relaxed was helping him cope with the drug induced juddering vision that could be best described as being like a Hitchcockian visual effect operated by a hyperactive squirrel that shook the whole universe closer and farther away. If you went with it, it was quite pleasant, as long as you didn't introduce any lateral movement like turning your head or the car. This caused the universe to try and slide away from underneath you. The other side effect was the constant feeling you ought to try to twist your head off, in a good way. — Dylan Perry

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden. — Leonard Maltin

[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter — Richard Dawkins

It seems like you're reading, I said, from the pink Princess telephone in my room, which came from my grandmother's house in St. Louis. It still had her old exchange phone number on the front, that Hitchcockian combination of words and letters. I loved it, not because I liked pink or irony, or was sentimental, but because the ringer was broken. I could call out but was never disturbed by incoming calls in my bedroom. The perfect form of communication in my mind, a model for what I fantasized about in a romantic relationship. — Jeanne Darst