Quotes About Frankly Speaking

#1. Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

Sergei Lavrov

#2. Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

Vidya Balan

#3. Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.

Vladimir Potanin

#4. I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

Nick Hornby

#5. This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#6. Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.

Michael Ramirez

#7. Frankly speaking, I like women. In my heart, I am still teenager. And I am very open and I don't want to hide this.

Mikhail Prokhorov

#8. It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

Adelina Sotnikova

#9. Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

Ban Ki-moon

#10. Frankly speaking, you look like ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag.

Stephen King

#11. You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

Norman Finkelstein

#12. I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

Alexander Lebedev

#13. There's no advantage to hurrying through life. -Shikamaru Nara

Masashi Kishimoto

#14. If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.

Sandra Bullock

#15. Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.

Anne Hollander

#16. Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

Jeff Bingaman

#17. I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.

Iris Murdoch

#18. For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#19. American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance ... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

Jackie Chan

#20. There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

Anne Enright

#21. But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Arne Jacobsen

#22. Forgive me for speaking frankly, but after the past quarter-hour's conversation, I am unconvinced that any of you possess the sense or sensitivity to impart the news in any respectful fashion - Amelia

Tessa Dare

#23. Somehow many have fallen into the belief that being a Christian is supposed to be a cake-walk. It's not.

Monica Johnson

#24. Speaking frankly and speaking the truth are two different things entirely. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last.

Haruki Murakami

#25. Between 'Orange' with Laverne, the show 'Transparent,' and Caitlyn Jenner, obviously we're in the middle of something enormous - a transgender movement. I'm just proud to be alive during this massive shift in the world.

Ruby Rose

#26. I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Ralph Steadman

#27. Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

Chelsea Cain

#28. We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

Edward Heath

#29. Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.
Joe Biden, speaking at a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, Sept. 10, 2008

Joe Biden

#30. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

William Cowper

#31. I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

Andrew Stanton

#32. You still cry too easily, but without your tears, at least, everything would burn. You are Spring in your jeans, in the laughing leaves. I think pearls melted over your bones.

Francesca Lia Block