Honest Quotes
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One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.
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What I admire is people who are grounded and resistant to all kinds of whisperings. Kimi Raikkonen, for example. You may like him or not, but he lives his way. He does the things he has identified as worthy for him and he is not trying to be everybody’s darling. At least he doesn’t give that impression. He is straightforward and honest and he tells you if he has a bad day. Period. He is real. He’s not political. He’s never up to something. If he doesn’t want to tell you something he will say so and not hum and haw. He doesn’t beat around the bush, never coming to the point.
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Why can’t we all just be honest with each other? It would be so easy to just not trust anyone ever, but you can’t go through life with a pair of scissors in each hand, snip-snip-snipping away at everything people say or don’t say, can you? You have to leave one hand free to catch the truth.
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Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.
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You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal.
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I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.
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The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
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Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.
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If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.
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If you're going to do something in your life do it 100%. Don't question it just go after it. If you don't believe in it or you're not honest with yourself it's not going to work and that's just something that I learned over the years.
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I'm certainly honest - and I can be socially awkward.
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I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.
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Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.
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I don't want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I've got it cracked, but it was just all in all a joyous experience. To me, the key to directing, to be honest, is just surround yourself with brilliant people and let them do their thing
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.
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If I'm honest, I find that the more booze the better the festival crowd. This is perhaps an irresponsible thing to say, but it's true.
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To be honest about it, sex was not worth the wait.
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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
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Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.
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I love writing about things I know, and I like to be very honest in my music.
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Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
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Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
