Leslie Ford famous quotes

Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.
-- Leslie Ford

#Bystanders #Hands #Ideas

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!
-- Leslie Ford

#People #Enemy #Ruined

The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.
-- Leslie Ford

#Feet #People

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.
-- Leslie Ford

#Men #Important #Groups

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.
-- Leslie Ford

#Believe #Thinking #Miracle

Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.
-- Leslie Ford

#Success

It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.
-- Leslie Ford

#Disillusioned #Disillusion

If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.
-- Leslie Ford

#Dark #Light #Darkness

Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.
-- Leslie Ford

#Men #Car #Ruins

bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.
-- Leslie Ford

#Care #Bitterness

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.
-- Leslie Ford

#Long #West #Dough

Do you have to do murder? Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.
-- Leslie Ford

#Writing #Two #Stories

It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.
-- Leslie Ford

#Zero #Average #League

...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back.
-- Leslie Ford

#Track #Technique #Teeth

... a city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ...
-- Leslie Ford

#Cities #Kitchen #Secret