Anthony Hecht quote: "A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice."

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a wit...
ANTHONY HECHT

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninit...
ANTHONY HECHT

These questions absorbed me at an age when I was supposed to be getting down the rudimentary facts o...
ANTHONY HECHT

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poe...
ANTHONY HECHT

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a wit...
ANTHONY HECHT

Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be dest...
ANTHONY HECHT

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbid...
ANTHONY HECHT

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups parti...
ANTHONY HECHT

Working with Bryan Cranston on 'Breaking Bad' has been totally thrilling because he is so cl...
JESSICA HECHT

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t...
BEN HECHT

There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r...
BEN HECHT

Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT

I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT

Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connecte...
BEN HECHT

Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors...
BEN HECHT

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the ...
BEN HECHT

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effo...
BEN HECHT

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
BEN HECHT

I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and...
BEN HECHT

Love is a hole in the heart.
BEN HECHT

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both...
BEN HECHT

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. Th...
BEN HECHT

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and ke...
BEN HECHT

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brot...
BEN HECHT

[While smokeless tobacco has] demonstrably less carcinogens and toxins than cigarette smoke, ... rem...
STEPHEN HECHT

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
BEN HECHT

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have bot...
BEN HECHT

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and affordable t...
BEN HECHT

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
BEN HECHT

We trotted, coach-dog fashion, at the heels of the human race, our tails wag.
BEN HECHT

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place wher...
BEN HECHT

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have bo...
BEN HECHT

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets ...
BEN HECHT

Most of the folks who come, they're not truly homeless. They just don't have much, and some are just...
GARY HECHT

That the child is laid on the stomach and not on their back always, not in the car seat always, not ...
LEAH HECHT

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass
BEN HECHT

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among...
BEN HECHT

I am sure I will feel at home in the Bahamas. I've been involved in gambling in the Bahamas. I've be...
CHIC HECHT

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.
BEN HECHT

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
BEN HECHT

We really don't know how far the mold has gone. We can see on the outside of the building where ther...
GEORGE HECHT

I don't mean to in any way impugn the makers of Bentley, but that car is nuts. When I do drive, ...
JESSICA HECHT

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religi...
JESSICA HECHT

A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.”
If he is w...
BEN HECHT

We have a number of people we just dispatched all day long to go to the nearest place where the wate...
GEORGE HECHT

Normally in a new or modern facility we would just go in, tear out the walls, get all the mold out. ...
GEORGE HECHT

We value this historic property so much and we don't want to tear up more of it than we have to.
GEORGE HECHT

It wasn't until about February, maybe as much as five or six weeks of slow leaking that we came to d...
GEORGE HECHT

Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not b...
BEN HECHT

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
BEN HECHT

In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carri...
BEN HECHT

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have...
BEN HECHT

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
BEN HECHT

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less cr...
BEN HECHT

It's a real nice program; it's easy to do; and, unfortunately, it's needed.
GARY HECHT

Everyone who comes is our guest. And there's no waiting on line.
GARY HECHT

We wanted to play four quarters of basketball and I thought the effort was there.
JAMES HECHT

We had a couple of turnovers. They were able to convert some shots.
JAMES HECHT

I wanted people to have a good time on Sunday, but I also wanted them to find out a little bit more ...
LEAH HECHT

The program remains controversial, in part because of the significant investment in plants and assoc...
JODI HECHT

The stable outlook is based on the ability of the hotel to attain its projected financial performanc...
JODI HECHT

The significant financial risk has now been eliminated. It's a positive event.
JODI HECHT

They said, 'If you don't want to play, we completely understand. There'll be a lot of pressure, but ...
JENNIFER HECHT

I'm so excited. I can't stop smiling.
JENNIFER HECHT

We wanted to serve well and we wanted to pass well. Our passing wasn't up to par, but our serving sa...
JENNIFER HECHT

It's going well, we want to play together and we show that on the ice right now. We have good chemis...
JOCHEN HECHT

I think we still have a chance. We still have a good team.
JOCHEN HECHT

I felt a pop in the knee and I knew something happened, something bad.
JOCHEN HECHT

It's disappointing. I was looking forward to the tournament. But you can't be sitting at home worryi...
JOCHEN HECHT

He made some unbelievable saves again tonight where he got a piece of the puck and kept us in the ga...
JOCHEN HECHT

We wanted to make sure in the third that we didn't give them anything, and we did a pretty good job ...
JOCHEN HECHT

We came out hard and dominated the game from the first minute on. We just kept pushing forward and d...
JOCHEN HECHT

We had control of the game right from the beginning, and they just weren't ready to play tonight, an...
JOCHEN HECHT

The fans were as happy about the 10th goal as they were about the first, maybe more.
JOCHEN HECHT

It was a good night for everybody on our team. Everybody played hard, and everybody deserved the fir...
JOCHEN HECHT

Both of these innovative oral drug candidates -- which target the needs of millions of patients -- h...
PETER HECHT

All in all, a solid quarter, but with upside coming from expense control versus revenue upside, inve...
MICHAEL HECHT

Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
LYNN HECHT SCHAFREN

She's excited. She's working hard at it. The criticism, I think, is rolling off her back as it usual...
JUDGE NATHAN HECHT

It's a huge gun ? he wanted to be sure she stopped the guy.
JUDGE NATHAN HECHT

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wante...
ANTHONY DAVIS

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
LYSETTE ANTHONY

You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything ...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie...
ANTHONY BURGESS

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ANTHONY BURGESS

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose...
ANTHONY BURGESS

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Every dogma has its day.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I didn't think; I experimented.
ANTHONY BURGESS

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t...
ANTHONY BURGESS

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come fr...
ANTHONY BURGESS

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
CARMELO ANTHONY

If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe,...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica...
ANTHONY LEWIS

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
ANTHONY SHADID

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that yo...
PIERS ANTHONY

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs w...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wron...
ANTHONY STORR

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taki...
ANTHONY SHADID

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are in...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if no...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of ki...
ANTHONY PETTIS

For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. ...
ANTHONY WEINER

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a d...
ANTHONY MARRA

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. T...
ANTHONY RYAN

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are picture...
ANTHONY WEINER

It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both th...
ANTHONY MARRA

With oil prices plummeting in late 2015 and early 2016, Gulf states have taken the unusual step of i...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.
ANTHONY FOXX

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, a...
ANTHONY HOLDEN

Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maxim...
ANTHONY PRATT

I'm a businessperson. I'm used to dealing with friction.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived ...
ANTHONY MARRA

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

You're never too young to die.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber ...
ANTHONY ANDERSON

I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endles...
ANTHONY PRATT

The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as mi...
ANTHONY FAUCI

I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd M...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mum...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
ANTHONY RAPP

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes ea...
ANTHONY TROLOPPE

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn&#...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know,...
ANTHONY HENLEY

As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never ...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
ANTHONY MACKIE

When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I said, 'I can't play Nixon. I'm not an American.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't look like him; I'm Welsh and have a rugby player's build. Burt was long and sinewy, but that...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and a...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

[During one scene in the movie] Proof, ... Night of the Living Dead.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Well, it's mission impossible, Mr. Hunt -- not mission difficult.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The p...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Love yourself every day, and twice on Sunday.
ANTHONY BEAL

On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man...
ANTHONY BEAL

I am a precious evil.
ANTHONY BEAL

My pen is my razor, and I've been bleeding.
ANTHONY BEAL

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or g...
ANTHONY BEAL

Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which...
ANTHONY BEAL

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
ANTHONY HOPE

I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just ...
CARMELO ANTHONY

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping i...
ANTHONY MARRA

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are ...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first majo...
ANTHONY FAUCI

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to d...
ANTHONY CORLISATRA

The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chain...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something ba...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

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