“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.” WorldTryingHandsTimeReadingBusinessEnvironmentMediaEthicsDetermineNewspapersJournalismClockFavouriteSecond ChanceSecond HandNews MediaNewspapers JournalismNewspaper ReportersReading Newspapers Book:A child of the century Source: A child of the century
“I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.” StillsHoursSleepCitiesFireStreetsStageFitMurderTheaterPoliceClockRanStationsHallsJailBuriedEchoesBellyRiotTickSlumsBanquetsCourtroomBookshopsSaloonsMadhousesTockTick Tock Author:Ben Hecht
“Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.” PartyGreatnessSceneHollywoodClockHeightTwelveGlowingEmergenceVanishingStardomFetch Author:Ben Hecht
