Quotes About Directness

I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues.

We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

When speaking, be sincere, be brief, and be seated.

Too much truth is uncouth.

There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

Clubs spoke so bluntly . . . so callously. But that was Clubs. He wasn't even really a pessimist; he just said the things that he didn't think others wanted to acknowledge.

Now see, why must people be like this? If you have something to say, why not simply say it?

I'm a New Yorker, I say what's on my mind, because not being that way, what's the point of that? People may think this is hype, but you look back before at my other fights and you see that I don't talk trash.

That's the compliment I get most often - 'You guys are so honest.'

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.

Let's be honest, honest it's important. I don't care about you, don't say bullshit and if there isn't any important thing please don't write me.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy "one word" Zen. When asked "What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?" he replied: "An appropriate statement." On another occasion, he answered: "Cake." I admired his directness.

I think if you're going to kill somebody, kill them! Don't stand around talking about it!

If you want your style to be energetic and lively, take the most direct route and use the most energetic and lively part of speech in the English language: verbs.

Happy talk must die

I wear my heart on my sleeve and tell you how it is.

I don't like sneaking up on people.

Say only what you mean.

One of the reasons people love Joe Biden is he just kind of says what he thinks. He's a guy whose heart is on his sleeve, and that's one of the things people love about him.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

I just say it as I see it, behave as I do. If people don't like it, they can take a running jump.