Anthony Hecht Quotes
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
Quotes to Explore
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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When most people are unhappy customers, they get mad; I try to get rich. All of my businesses started the same way: I got rich by improving the world and making a lot of people happier in the process.
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
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Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
