I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.
- Willie Aames
I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier.
- Mark Twain
The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?
- Veronica Roth
It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
- Veronica Roth
I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen
- Paulo Coelho
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
- Jodi Picoult
Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.
- Jodi Picoult
To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.
- Jean Alesi
Sebastian just smiled. "I could hear your heart beating," he said softly. "When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?"
"That you seem to be dating my dad?" Jace shrugged. "You're a little young for him, to be honest."
"What?" For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.
- Cassandra Clare
You and I...we're alike. We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
- Cassandra Clare
To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They're like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.
- Louie Anderson
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- Walter Anderson
To be honest," I halfwhispered,
"I don't feel as safe with him as I
do with you."
"I know."
A ghost of a smile touched my lips. "How
do you know?"
"Think about what safety is, Ella."
"Trust?"
"Yes, partly. But also an absence of risk."
He unstuck a strand of hair from my damp
cheek and tucked it back. "Maybe you need
to take a risk. Maybe you need to be with
someone who rattles you a little.
- Lisa Kleypas
To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
- Curtis Armstrong
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
- Dido Armstrong
I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.
- Bille August
I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.
- Kevin Bacon
I try to be honest and I keep moving.
- Erykah Badu
If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum of intelligence, seriousness, will, and self-overcoming that you embody and expend it all in this one direction, there there won't be any left for the other direction. Culture and the state - let us be honest with ourselves - these are adversaries.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.
- Brian Baird
Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.
- Stephen Baldwin
Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you, my kind of successes.
- Cameron Crowe
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
- Banksy
I think you have an obligation to be honest.
- Charles Barkley
Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along...well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
But to be honest, there is only so much battle a man can take. I think all of us crave a quieter life with a tender touch. (Sparhawk)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.
- James Beard
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
- Martha Beck
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
- Albert Camus
A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can't have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.
- Lloyd C Douglas
My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I say.
- Charlie Bell
Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.
- Saul Bellow
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
- Rodney Dangerfield
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.
- Michael Bergdahl
I don't know about you,
but for me...to be honest,
I would prioritize myself,
before helping other people.
- Toba Beta
Why do you hate me so much?
To be honest, I don't know why,
but I really hate to feel this way.
- Toba Beta
I'm a little bit allergic to the whole brand thing to be honest but maybe it's just happening around me and I'm not really aware of it.
- Sophie Ellis Bextor
For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
- Thora Birch
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
- Cate Blanchett
I don't really watch that much TV, to be honest.
- Emily Blunt
I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
- Emily Blunt
You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!
- Enid Blyton
In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
- Uwe Boll
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
- William Shakespeare
We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.
- Sean Booth
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
- Barbara Boxer
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
- John Bright
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
- Eric Brown
I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.
- Nicholas Sparks
To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.
- Bill Budge
You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
- George Burns
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
- Robert Burns
I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
- Carly Fiorina
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we "don't know" what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn't.
Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.
- Deb Caletti
But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type
- Suzanne Collins
My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.
- Suzanne Collins
She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.
- Suzanne Collins
I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.
- Suzanne Collins
My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal herbs and sell them to her shop to be brewed into remedies. She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.
- Suzanne Collins
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
- Benjamin Franklin
I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.
- Helena Bonham Carter
To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.
- Brandi Chastain
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.
- Bertrand Russell
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.
- Sri Chinmoy
I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.
- Melanie Chisholm
I am not too happy with terms like "the left", to be honest. And I don't use it much....if by "the left" you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can't be elements of the left opposed to workers' movement, at least under that definition.
- Noam Chomsky
Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
- Kinky Friedman
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
- Hillary Clinton
Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don't always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don't wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.
- Terry Pratchett
To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.
- Phil Collins
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
- Robbie Coltrane
Samuel didn't move. 'What will you do it I climb off the bed?'
'Well I can eat you, or I can drag you down to the depths of Hell, never to seen or heard from again. Depends, really.'
'On what?'
'Lost of things: hygiene, for a start. After tasting that sock, I don't fancy eating any part of you, to be honest, so it'll have to be the depths of Hell for you, I'm afraid.
- John Connolly
Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself
- Anderson Cooper
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
- John Cornyn
I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.
- Caroline Corr
I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with President Obama about everything. But I've gotten to know him, I've worked with him, and the choice is crystal clear.
- Charlie Crist
If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.
- Kristen Crockett
It was hard to be honest, to open up, and reveal something that sounded crazy. Because once you told someone the truth, that person had a piece of youand they could belittle it, destroy it. They could turn your confession into a wound that never healed.
- Sarah Cross
Who do you think keeps this country safe so you can sleep at night?"
"I don't sleep most nights. And to be honest, Your Grace, I don't feel all that safe.
- Kady Cross
I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.
- Puff Daddy
Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.
- Hugh Dancy
When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.
- Paul Daniels
Let me ask you this my friend. Did you truly love my granddaughter? Please be honest."
"I think so."
"You don't think love. You love with your heart.
- Heather Davis
I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.
- Ellen Degeneres
...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.
- Ellen Degeneres
Really? Screaming?"
He shrugged. "It wasn't that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse."
"Worse than screaming?" I said.
"Much," he said, nodding. "I mean, at least with an argument, you know what's happening. Or have some idea. Silence is... it could be anything. It's just "
"So freaking loud," I finished for him.
He pointed at me. "Exactly.
- Sarah Dessen
Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called.
"Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong."
"I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.
- Sarah Dessen
I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
- Cameron Diaz
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
- Olympia Dukakis
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
- Olympia Dukakis
The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest
- David James Duncan
Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.
- Kate Mara
To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
- Maria Sharapova
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
- Bob Dylan
To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.
- George Eads
I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.
- Simone Elkeles
To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.
- Joe Elliott
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
- Ralph Ellison
I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.
- Jonny Lee Miller
I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.
- Rupert Everett
I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.
- Rupert Everett
I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
- Adam Faith
To wake up and feel enlivened; to be in a hurry to get out of bed and into the day. To have friends you want to speak to, compare experiences with and be on the phone to...Well, to be honest, I'm still some way from that.
- Sebastian Faulks
Cucumbers are technically a fruit and in the same family as pumpkins, melons and squash, so it may benefit those markets, although, to be honest, giant melons don't strike me as potentially that commercial.
- Jasper Fforde
I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.
- Helen Fielding
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
- Nelson Mandela
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
- 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
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
- Gerald R Ford
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
- Richard Foreman
When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.
- Michael J Fox
Be prepared and be honest.
- John Wooden
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
- Ace Frehley
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
- Will Rogers
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?" (...)
A sigh of longing. "To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler's trophy wife.
- Gena Showalter
He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me."
Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.
- Neil Gaiman
I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
- Steven Moffat
I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.
- Maurice Gibb
Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer
- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.
- Joseph Gordonlevitt
To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.
- Joseph Gordonlevitt
To be honest, I feel like I think too much. So I like working out because it makes me kind of relax.
- Heather Graham
I think you have to be honest and not try to be somebody that you really aren't.
- Heather Graham
What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
- Lee Grant
I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.
- Emm Gryner
But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.
- Jenny Han
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard
I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.
- Angie Harmon
I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
- Randy Harrison
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
- Prince Harry
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
- Josh Hartnett
I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
- Colin Hay
There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
- Katherine Heigl
I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
- Katherine Heigl
To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.
- Jill Hennessy
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
- Damon Hill
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
- Lauryn Hill
Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.
- Etty Hillesum
I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.
- Dave Holland
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
- Anne Holm
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
- Vernon Howard
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
- Michael Hutchence
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
- Scott Ian
When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.
- Michael Jackson
I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.
- Stu Jackson
I have to be honest, I'm not exactly impressed with your case," she said, cutting him off. "All you've got is a sporadic string of some very minor incidents. It's not as if anyone slapped an ass or grabbed a boob.
- Julie James
It's been said that 1 in 4 people have herpes, and everyone has 4 grandparents, so let's be honest, your grandmother is probably a dirty skank.
- Jarod Kintz
On my list of things to be when I grew up was a character in a Gary Larson comic. With one of his books in my hands, I would spend hours and hours laughing. And then I'd finally stop laughing long enough to actually open the book. I'm not sure what the younger me would think about me if he could see me now. To be honest, I'm not sure he'd be terribly impressed. He'd probably put his hands on his hips and hump his dismay.
- Jarod Kintz
I was part of a focus group once, but to be honest, I couldn't concentrate.
- Jarod Kintz
Be honest, asshole. Are you a dick magnet?
- Jarod Kintz
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
- Elia Kazan
I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.
- Stacy Keach
Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia.
- Robbie Keane
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway.
- Kent M Keith
I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.
- Thomas Keller
To be honest, I had been restless...The sensation would rise suddenly like freight from the ocean floor--the unexpected discontent of cows in their pasture. The constant chewing of all that cud.
- Sue Monk Kidd
To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself and I'm very proud to say that.
- Nicole Kidman
I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.
- Lil Kim
Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
- Alveda King
Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.
- Kerry King
To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded loaf after plastic white bread. (I don't mean to be rude about Josh. And I didn't realize it at the time. But it is. He is. Plastic white bread.)
- Sophie Kinsella
If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
- Sophie Kinsella
Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.
- Walter Kirn
...because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.
- Chuck Klosterman
When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.
- Dorothy Koomson
To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
- Chantal Kreviazuk
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
- Barbara Kruger
I'm not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody else. There's always an element of me in there but, you know, if you give me a script and some clothes I can do anything. But, as Ryan, I'm a bit of a recluse.
- Ryan Kwanten
The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
- Talib Kweli
Be kind, be honest and love.
- Laure Lacornette
You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.
- Jim Lampley
I love you.'
'Yeah, well...'
'You make my heart want to beat.'
'That's nice and creepy. But I'm with Fletcher.(...) Also, these proclamations of your undying love for me are getting kind of... it's a bit much to be honest. Just hold back a little.'
'But my love for you is eternal.'
'That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
- Derek Landy
So what does that actually mean?'
'To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.'
'Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his full title,' Tipstaff said.
'Of course,' Skulduggery said. 'To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion.
- Derek Landy
When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.
- Artie Lange
They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.
- Alvin Lee
Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.
- Spike Lee
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
- Yoko Ono
It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.
- Yoko Ono
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
- Sugar Ray Leonard
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.
- Rush Limbaugh
I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
- John Walker Lindh
...she kept hoping Mulder and Scully would kiss each other well and good. Having a relationship vicariously through fantasy and excellent scripting was all Aggie had at the moment - and to be honest, it wasn't all that bad. Her imagination was always better than reality..
- Marjorie M Liu
I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.
- Ryan Lochte
The band of robbers wants the exploited to be honest and respect money.
- Jack London
Can I be honest with you?" Chaol leaned closer, and Celaena leaned to meet him as he whispered: "You sound like a raving lunatic.
- Sarah J Maas
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
- George Macdonald
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you're due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings.
- Donald Van De Mark
Good night, Seth."
"So you're running again, then?" One of his boots thudded on the floor.
"I'm not running."
The other boot hit the floor. "Really?"
"Really. It's just" She stopped; she didn't have anything that would finish that sentence and be honest.
"Maybe you should slow down, so I can catch you." He paused, waiting.
- Melissa Marr
Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the... centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.
- Melissa Marr
It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them--and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while....But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
- Yann Martel
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
- Jose Marti
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
- Jose Marti
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
- Armistead Maupin
Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.
- Jenny Mccarthy
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
- Ian Mckellen
- Willie Aames
I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier.
- Mark Twain
The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?
- Veronica Roth
It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
- Veronica Roth
I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen
- Paulo Coelho
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
- Jodi Picoult
Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.
- Jodi Picoult
To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.
- Jean Alesi
Sebastian just smiled. "I could hear your heart beating," he said softly. "When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?"
"That you seem to be dating my dad?" Jace shrugged. "You're a little young for him, to be honest."
"What?" For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.
- Cassandra Clare
You and I...we're alike. We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.
- Cassandra Clare
To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They're like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.
- Louie Anderson
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- Walter Anderson
To be honest," I halfwhispered,
"I don't feel as safe with him as I
do with you."
"I know."
A ghost of a smile touched my lips. "How
do you know?"
"Think about what safety is, Ella."
"Trust?"
"Yes, partly. But also an absence of risk."
He unstuck a strand of hair from my damp
cheek and tucked it back. "Maybe you need
to take a risk. Maybe you need to be with
someone who rattles you a little.
- Lisa Kleypas
To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
- Curtis Armstrong
I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
- Dido Armstrong
I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.
- Bille August
I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.
- Kevin Bacon
I try to be honest and I keep moving.
- Erykah Badu
If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum of intelligence, seriousness, will, and self-overcoming that you embody and expend it all in this one direction, there there won't be any left for the other direction. Culture and the state - let us be honest with ourselves - these are adversaries.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.
- Brian Baird
Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.
- Stephen Baldwin
Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you, my kind of successes.
- Cameron Crowe
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
- Banksy
I think you have an obligation to be honest.
- Charles Barkley
Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along...well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
But to be honest, there is only so much battle a man can take. I think all of us crave a quieter life with a tender touch. (Sparhawk)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.
- James Beard
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
- Martha Beck
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
- Albert Camus
A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can't have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.
- Lloyd C Douglas
My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I say.
- Charlie Bell
Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.
- Saul Bellow
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
- Rodney Dangerfield
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.
- Michael Bergdahl
I don't know about you,
but for me...to be honest,
I would prioritize myself,
before helping other people.
- Toba Beta
Why do you hate me so much?
To be honest, I don't know why,
but I really hate to feel this way.
- Toba Beta
I'm a little bit allergic to the whole brand thing to be honest but maybe it's just happening around me and I'm not really aware of it.
- Sophie Ellis Bextor
For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
- Thora Birch
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
- Cate Blanchett
I don't really watch that much TV, to be honest.
- Emily Blunt
I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
- Emily Blunt
You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!
- Enid Blyton
In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
- Uwe Boll
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
- William Shakespeare
We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.
- Sean Booth
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
- Barbara Boxer
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
- John Bright
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
- Eric Brown
I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.
- Nicholas Sparks
To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.
- Bill Budge
You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
- George Burns
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
- Robert Burns
I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
- Carly Fiorina
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we "don't know" what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn't.
Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.
- Deb Caletti
But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type
- Suzanne Collins
My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest.
- Suzanne Collins
She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.
- Suzanne Collins
I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.
- Suzanne Collins
My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal herbs and sell them to her shop to be brewed into remedies. She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.
- Suzanne Collins
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
- Benjamin Franklin
I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.
- Helena Bonham Carter
To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.
- Brandi Chastain
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.
- Bertrand Russell
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.
- Sri Chinmoy
I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.
- Melanie Chisholm
I am not too happy with terms like "the left", to be honest. And I don't use it much....if by "the left" you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can't be elements of the left opposed to workers' movement, at least under that definition.
- Noam Chomsky
Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
- Kinky Friedman
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
- Hillary Clinton
Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don't always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don't wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.
- Terry Pratchett
To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.
- Phil Collins
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
- Robbie Coltrane
Samuel didn't move. 'What will you do it I climb off the bed?'
'Well I can eat you, or I can drag you down to the depths of Hell, never to seen or heard from again. Depends, really.'
'On what?'
'Lost of things: hygiene, for a start. After tasting that sock, I don't fancy eating any part of you, to be honest, so it'll have to be the depths of Hell for you, I'm afraid.
- John Connolly
Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself
- Anderson Cooper
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
- John Cornyn
I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.
- Caroline Corr
I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with President Obama about everything. But I've gotten to know him, I've worked with him, and the choice is crystal clear.
- Charlie Crist
If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.
- Kristen Crockett
It was hard to be honest, to open up, and reveal something that sounded crazy. Because once you told someone the truth, that person had a piece of youand they could belittle it, destroy it. They could turn your confession into a wound that never healed.
- Sarah Cross
Who do you think keeps this country safe so you can sleep at night?"
"I don't sleep most nights. And to be honest, Your Grace, I don't feel all that safe.
- Kady Cross
I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.
- Puff Daddy
Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.
- Hugh Dancy
When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.
- Paul Daniels
Let me ask you this my friend. Did you truly love my granddaughter? Please be honest."
"I think so."
"You don't think love. You love with your heart.
- Heather Davis
I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.
- Ellen Degeneres
...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.
- Ellen Degeneres
Really? Screaming?"
He shrugged. "It wasn't that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse."
"Worse than screaming?" I said.
"Much," he said, nodding. "I mean, at least with an argument, you know what's happening. Or have some idea. Silence is... it could be anything. It's just "
"So freaking loud," I finished for him.
He pointed at me. "Exactly.
- Sarah Dessen
Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called.
"Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong."
"I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.
- Sarah Dessen
I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
- Cameron Diaz
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
- Olympia Dukakis
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
- Olympia Dukakis
The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest
- David James Duncan
Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring.
- Kate Mara
To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
- Maria Sharapova
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
- Bob Dylan
To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.
- George Eads
I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.
- Simone Elkeles
To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.
- Joe Elliott
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
- Ralph Ellison
I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.
- Jonny Lee Miller
I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.
- Rupert Everett
I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.
- Rupert Everett
I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
- Adam Faith
To wake up and feel enlivened; to be in a hurry to get out of bed and into the day. To have friends you want to speak to, compare experiences with and be on the phone to...Well, to be honest, I'm still some way from that.
- Sebastian Faulks
Cucumbers are technically a fruit and in the same family as pumpkins, melons and squash, so it may benefit those markets, although, to be honest, giant melons don't strike me as potentially that commercial.
- Jasper Fforde
I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.
- Helen Fielding
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
- Nelson Mandela
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
- 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
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
- Gerald R Ford
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
- Richard Foreman
When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.
- Michael J Fox
Be prepared and be honest.
- John Wooden
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
- Ace Frehley
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
- Will Rogers
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?" (...)
A sigh of longing. "To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler's trophy wife.
- Gena Showalter
He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me."
Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.
- Neil Gaiman
I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
- Steven Moffat
I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.
- Maurice Gibb
Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer
- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.
- Joseph Gordonlevitt
To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.
- Joseph Gordonlevitt
To be honest, I feel like I think too much. So I like working out because it makes me kind of relax.
- Heather Graham
I think you have to be honest and not try to be somebody that you really aren't.
- Heather Graham
What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
- Lee Grant
I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.
- Emm Gryner
But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.
- Jenny Han
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard
I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.
- Angie Harmon
I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
- Randy Harrison
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
- Prince Harry
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
- Josh Hartnett
I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
- Colin Hay
There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
- Katherine Heigl
I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
- Katherine Heigl
To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.
- Jill Hennessy
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
- Damon Hill
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
- Lauryn Hill
Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.
- Etty Hillesum
I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.
- Dave Holland
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
- Anne Holm
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
- Vernon Howard
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
- Michael Hutchence
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
- Scott Ian
When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.
- Michael Jackson
I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.
- Stu Jackson
I have to be honest, I'm not exactly impressed with your case," she said, cutting him off. "All you've got is a sporadic string of some very minor incidents. It's not as if anyone slapped an ass or grabbed a boob.
- Julie James
It's been said that 1 in 4 people have herpes, and everyone has 4 grandparents, so let's be honest, your grandmother is probably a dirty skank.
- Jarod Kintz
On my list of things to be when I grew up was a character in a Gary Larson comic. With one of his books in my hands, I would spend hours and hours laughing. And then I'd finally stop laughing long enough to actually open the book. I'm not sure what the younger me would think about me if he could see me now. To be honest, I'm not sure he'd be terribly impressed. He'd probably put his hands on his hips and hump his dismay.
- Jarod Kintz
I was part of a focus group once, but to be honest, I couldn't concentrate.
- Jarod Kintz
Be honest, asshole. Are you a dick magnet?
- Jarod Kintz
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
- Elia Kazan
I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.
- Stacy Keach
Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia.
- Robbie Keane
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway.
- Kent M Keith
I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.
- Thomas Keller
To be honest, I had been restless...The sensation would rise suddenly like freight from the ocean floor--the unexpected discontent of cows in their pasture. The constant chewing of all that cud.
- Sue Monk Kidd
To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself and I'm very proud to say that.
- Nicole Kidman
I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.
- Lil Kim
Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
- Alveda King
Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.
- Kerry King
To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded loaf after plastic white bread. (I don't mean to be rude about Josh. And I didn't realize it at the time. But it is. He is. Plastic white bread.)
- Sophie Kinsella
If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
- Sophie Kinsella
Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.
- Walter Kirn
...because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.
- Chuck Klosterman
When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.
- Dorothy Koomson
To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
- Chantal Kreviazuk
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
- Barbara Kruger
I'm not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody else. There's always an element of me in there but, you know, if you give me a script and some clothes I can do anything. But, as Ryan, I'm a bit of a recluse.
- Ryan Kwanten
The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
- Talib Kweli
Be kind, be honest and love.
- Laure Lacornette
You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.
- Jim Lampley
I love you.'
'Yeah, well...'
'You make my heart want to beat.'
'That's nice and creepy. But I'm with Fletcher.(...) Also, these proclamations of your undying love for me are getting kind of... it's a bit much to be honest. Just hold back a little.'
'But my love for you is eternal.'
'That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
- Derek Landy
So what does that actually mean?'
'To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.'
'Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his full title,' Tipstaff said.
'Of course,' Skulduggery said. 'To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion.
- Derek Landy
When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.
- Artie Lange
They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.
- Alvin Lee
Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.
- Spike Lee
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
- Yoko Ono
It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.
- Yoko Ono
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
- Sugar Ray Leonard
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.
- Rush Limbaugh
I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
- John Walker Lindh
...she kept hoping Mulder and Scully would kiss each other well and good. Having a relationship vicariously through fantasy and excellent scripting was all Aggie had at the moment - and to be honest, it wasn't all that bad. Her imagination was always better than reality..
- Marjorie M Liu
I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.
- Ryan Lochte
The band of robbers wants the exploited to be honest and respect money.
- Jack London
Can I be honest with you?" Chaol leaned closer, and Celaena leaned to meet him as he whispered: "You sound like a raving lunatic.
- Sarah J Maas
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
- George Macdonald
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you're due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings.
- Donald Van De Mark
Good night, Seth."
"So you're running again, then?" One of his boots thudded on the floor.
"I'm not running."
The other boot hit the floor. "Really?"
"Really. It's just" She stopped; she didn't have anything that would finish that sentence and be honest.
"Maybe you should slow down, so I can catch you." He paused, waiting.
- Melissa Marr
Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the... centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.
- Melissa Marr
It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them--and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while....But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
- Yann Martel
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
- Jose Marti
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
- Jose Marti
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
- Armistead Maupin
Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.
- Jenny Mccarthy
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
- Ian Mckellen
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