Quotes About Directness

I am really bad at holding my tongue, because it comes naturally for me to say what's on my mind.

I don't hold my tongue for nobody.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

Nobody has time for your priceless prose. Get to the point.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.

the one who calls it by its name. To you

Be brutally honest and straightforward. I

I am not talking about a negative, pessimistic, insulting, or overly sexual version of brutally honest. If

The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line—it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter.

Simpler, Peter, simpler, more direct, as honest as you can make of a dishonest thing.

That ain't Chanel Number Five I smell comin from the direction of your butt, is it?

I believe that half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.

It's a good idea to tell the person you are confronting exactly what you would like them to do instead of what they have done or currently are doing.

Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.

One must be frank to be relevant.

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.

I speak my mind on everything. I'm not reluctant.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. What you see is what you get.

I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.

The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.