Hecht Company

Famous quotes containing the words hecht and/or company:

    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)

    The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, “the sweet seriousness of sixteen,” the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,—we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)