Hecht

Famous quotes containing the word hecht:

    Man with lantern: Who are you?
    Captain: The Flying Cloud. 220 days out of New York and 50 days trying to find your blasted harbor.
    Man with lantern: Nobody asked you to come.
    Captain: Got anything in this hog-end of the world except fog?
    Man with lantern: Sure, we’ve got gold, fountains of gold.
    —Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

    And in their fairy tales
    The warty giant and witch
    Get sealed in doorless jails
    And the match-girl strikes it rich.
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    No prayers or incense rose up in those hours
    Which grew to be years, and every day came mute
    Ghosts from the ovens, sitting through crisp air,
    And settled upon his eyes in a black soot.
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)