Howard Fast Quotes

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

You just go on your nerve.

I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it. Some people, like some of the women I know, have a black belt in spending. They were born with that. But what they gave me was a black belt in chutzpah.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

I've got enough nerve to do anything!

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

No human is completely fearless.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.

Tashan' is not for the lily-livered.

It takes a lot of guts to get on stage.

You walk into an arena with 10,000 people and no security and everybody hating you, it takes some gumption.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.