Ben Hecht Quotes

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

Ben Hecht

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964

Topics

KindnessIntegrityGenerosityProud

What I love about WonderCon is that, while the focus is on the comics, it's also a celebration of games and movies and all the ancillary media.

Jim Lee

LoveFocusMediaMoviesGamesAbout

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

Anderson Cooper

YourselfBe YourselfThinkLongYou

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

Stephen R. George

ReadingHorrorOldYearsFiveBeen

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

Stacy Schiff

JobWordsRealityMeaningYouUp

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

Sigourney Weaver

DramaDoneNeverAlwaysBeenWays

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Shirley MacLaine

SuccessTruthPeopleRememberPlace

I really love numbers.

Travis Kalanick

LoveNumbersReally

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

Toni Servillo

ArtSingleGestureMustDaringEach

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

Lisa Scottoline

LoveFoodCityUnderdogPhiladelphia

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Joyce Carol Oates

PassionAuthoritySymbolsInventions

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

Jose Ramos-Horta

ProblemsFirstStructureOpenPay

I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

Dick Van Dyke

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