Hecht

Famous quotes containing the word hecht:

    Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
    —Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

    But all the time he was talking she had in mind
    The notion of what his whiskers would feel like
    On the back of her neck.
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body
    Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit,
    Felt in the tingling bruises of collision,
    And known to captains as esprit de corps.
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)