Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Stern

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge.

Howard Cosell

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

Ice T

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

Erica Jong

Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ..." [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves.

Eric Church

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Hillary Clinton

Honest work deserves honest pay.

Herbert Hoover

While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Italo Calvino

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Irwin Edman

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

Ira Sachs

I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotionally direct and honest about how I put the material with the images. You hope that the strength of mise-en-scene comes from an honesty towards the material. You also hire really well.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.

Jack Nicklaus

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

Jack Kevorkian

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

Jack Kerouac

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

Isabel Allende

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

Honesty is a huge issue because even people who disagreed with his policies respected his integrity.

Jamal Lewis

Honestly right now, I'm on mute right now. I'm going to keep saying the same thing.

Honestly I think there is no master plan other than 'Let's put this tool out there and see what people do with it,'

Barry Bonds

But who knows? My knee may be like this for the rest of my life, ... I have to give it an honest effort. I have to give it a shot ... to say I did what I did to try to get it back to normal. And if it doesn't go back to normal then that's just the way the knee is.

Condoleezza Rice

but I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I would not be standing here today as secretary of state.

Graeme Murphy

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

Grace Slick

I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant.

Gerry Spence

Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.

Jason Mraz

'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.

In each case, we learned that we have to have honest communications. You've got to not ignore anything.

I'll be very honest with you. I think they view John Spencer as unpredictable. I think his past statements scare them.

George Hamilton

I'm a scamp. But I'm an honest scamp.

I, honest to God, do not know a thing. I have zero understanding of the rules. All I know is that my rehab is over.

Uri Geller

I honestly thought we wouldn't make it and we would end up in hospital.

I honestly thought he'd be back by now.