Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Hamilton

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

Mike Holmgren

I don't know. I honestly don't know. That's one of the reasons we're taking this trip. Kathy listens to me and understands me the most, and that's why we're doing it. I'll have a better idea of what's going on after we come back.

J. G. Ballard

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

J. G. Ballard

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

J. I. Packer

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

J. I. Packer

Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

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.

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.

Dusty Baker

He's real honest about when he's had enough.

Kevin Pietersen

I'm flattered. I honestly didn't think I was going to get this award,

I had told the kids that I honestly didn't think we would be in the playoffs unless we won the tournament. And we played like we wanted it tonight.

Rudyard Kipling

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

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.

Chuck Hagel

be honest with the Congress, be honest with the American people.

Be honest with each other. Don't wait until after the marriage to surprise the other partner with a mountain of debt.

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.

Gretchen Wilson

They're the kind of people who were honest. They'd listen and tell me what they thought - the kind of honesty you need when you're trying to perfect your craft.

Jim McKay

And when I take him down there tonight, ... I'm 12 years old, if I'm honest about it.

Mark Recchi

Dumb. I honestly don't know if I could reach him, if I even wanted to punch him.

Kimmo Timonen

Every time we get another win, we just get more confidence. I'll be honest and say I thought we were the better team. I've never been on a team this tight and together.