A Quote by Ben Hecht

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Ben Hecht

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Ben Hecht
American - Novelist
February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964

Every time I do a game on TBS, I wear these: my dad's cuff links from 1958.

Ernie Johnson Jr.

Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

Tove Jansson

I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

Richard P. Feynman

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Dick Francis

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Jodi Picoult

I don't want to start producing dressing gowns and cuff links with the Purdey name stamped on them. Making Purdey the leading gunmaker is our priority. Once we have succeeded in doing that, then we might look at some accessories, but it is a long haul.

Johann Rupert

I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

Jon Hamm

I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff.

John Waite

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

Pauline Kael

The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.

Wendell Berry

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Michael Shermer

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

S. J. Perelman

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

Ernest Rutherford

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.

Juliana of the Netherlands

Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.