Honest Quotes · Page 115

I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure…

— David Chang

My dad one time told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to…

— Jaden Smith

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

— Anton Chekhov

My daughter criticizes me constructively. She gives me good and honest feedback.

— Arvind Swami

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist,…

— Charlie Kaufman

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.

— Zig Ziglar

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian -…

— Dries van Noten

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest,…

— Anonymous

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

— Wes Fesler

Art isn't my thing, I'll be honest.

— Wes Streeting

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow…

— Margot Asquith

The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

— Malcolm Wilson

To be honest, I didn't think I would be here for this album [Give the People What They Want]. I thought I…

— Sharon Jones

To be honest with you, there's nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I…

— Matt Dillon

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

— Kiki Dee

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

— Scott Thompson

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any…

— Peter Drucker

I feel like... I don't have a wife, I don't have a kids, but... I see rappers and I'm like, I know…

— Donald Glover

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

— Maurice Sendak

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend,…

— Lionel Trilling

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

— Vernon Howard

Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.

— Pamela Meyer

To be honest with you, I'm not sure what a pop tune is. I'm sure if I hear it on the radio,…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.

— Jeri Ryan

The biggest lesson is that you write the best songs when you're being real, an honest and you mean what you're saying,…

— Roxanne Emery

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

— Rick James

Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man…

— Sheryl Sandberg

People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.

— Paul Westerberg

I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by…

— Danny Dyer

As I've got older, I've got into doing much more stand-up, and much more writing and directing, and so there's been this…

— Simon Amstell

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also…

— Kacey Musgraves

Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner…

— Charles S. Maier

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.

— Fareed Zakaria

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

— Thomas McDonell

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I don't like misleading people, and I like to be honest and transparent.

— Bill Ward