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 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 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 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 A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.”
If he is w...
BEN 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 Working with Bryan Cranston on 'Breaking Bad' has been totally thrilling because he is so cl...
JESSICA HECHT 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 A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the l...
ANTHONY HECHT [While smokeless tobacco has] demonstrably less carcinogens and toxins than cigarette smoke, ... rem...
STEPHEN 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 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 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 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 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 Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ...
BEN SHAPIRO I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
BEN PLATT 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would...
BEN GOLDACRE We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni...
BEN AFFLECK Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho...
BEN BERNANKE In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JOHNSON I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human...
BEN SILBERMANN We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
BEN FOUNTAIN To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be...
BEN OKRI With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce...
BEN BERNANKE Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
BEN BERNANKE Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy ...
BEN JONSON Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY