Ben Hecht: Quotes about the world

Ben Hecht was American screenwriter. Explore interesting quotes on world.
Ben Hecht: 64   quotes 2   likes

“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”

Ben Hecht

Books

World , Time , Reading

“The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.”

Ben Hecht book Perfidy

Perfidy
Books

World , Way , Forgetting

“Gibbons is a man full of pain and violence. On this night, there is a Witch's Sabbath in his heart. Storms are blowing his world to bits and great troubles are pounding him on a reef.”

Ben Hecht

Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Screenplays

Pain , World , Heart , Night

“Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, build them in with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them and, hello, America, hang on to your lights, they're the only lights in the world.”

Ben Hecht

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Screenplays

World , Light