To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. – Charles Caleb Colton
I’m looking to do an honest job, and I don’t have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I’m not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did. – Anupam Kher
We’ve always had a dual role in the region – friend of Israel, and honest broker. We’ve given up the honest broker role completely. – Chris Matthews
Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they’re so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks. – Bob Keeshan
You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo. – Bill Kurtis
Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they’ll never be eclipsed. – Benny Green
I don’t get surprised very often to be honest. I’m the kind of person who you couldn’t throw a surprise party for because I’d figure it out. – Chris O’Donnell
I won’t hire someone or date a girl who has not worked in a restaurant, and that’s the honest truth. I don’t think you know how it is until you’ve worked in a restaurant. – Casey Neistat
I look for someone who is honest, fun to be around, and doesn’t take himself too seriously. – Caroline Wozniacki
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
An actress once advised me, ‘Make sure you do your own laundry – it will keep you honest.’ – Cate Blanchett
Everyone is like, ‘What were you thinking on the podium?’ I’m like, I’m just like probably thinking, like, ‘We’re hungry,’ to be honest. – Aly Raisman
The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief. – Ben Shapiro
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure. – Carl Clinton Van Doren
To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better. – Bill Budge
Just because you’re upfront with someone doesn’t mean you’re an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat. – Brian Celio
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money. – Andrew Dominik
I’m always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you’re not a nudge – you’re just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I’m not afraid of ‘no,’ and that’s way different than ‘I won’t take no for an answer.’ – Carol Leifer