George Hecht quote: "We really don't know how far the mold has gone. We can see on the outside of the building where there's been so much moisture inside that it's caused the paint to peel off."

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

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

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

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

Love is a hole in the heart.
BEN 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

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

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

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI

Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN

I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS

The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE

I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY

Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL

We really don't know how far the mold has gone. We can see on the outside of the building where there's been so much moisture inside that it's caused the paint to peel off.

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We really don't know how far the mold has gone. We can see on the outside of the building where there's been so much moisture inside that it's caused the paint to peel off.

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