Quotes About Blunt

The days had become a confusion of catastrophes; what seemed impossible in the afternoon was blunt fact by the evening.

You don't mince words.""Just garlic.

I swear like a sailor.

How old are you?" That was for my benefit. He had a triple conviction: that a) his animus toward women made it impossible for him to judge any single specimen; that b) I needed only an hour with any woman alive to tag her; and that c) he could help out by asking some blunt impertinent question, his favorite one being how old are you. It's hopeless to try to set him right.

CHARLES. And there are two brothers of his, William and Walter Blunt, Esquires, both members of Parliament, and noted speakers; and, what's very extraordinary, I believe, this is the first time they were ever bought or sold. SIR OLIVER. That is very extraordinary, indeed! I'll take them at your own price, for the honour of Parliament.

But even then, with her prize in tow as she weaves out of the bar, the shield never changes, the expression stays, still somewhere between blunt ferocity and brute pathos.

Kennedy, he gushed, was "graceful, gay, funny, witty, teasing and teasable, forgiving, hungry, incapable of being corny, restless, interesting, interested, exuberant, blunt, profane, and loving.

You hate me because I'm blunt and have no patience for wasted time or wasted words. Because I'm not nice. Well, a lot of nice people are nice because they've figured out it's a great way to get things from other people. Some of the slimiest snakes I've run across have been nice. So let me tell you now, if you ever see me resort to being nice, run.

I'm not a nice guy. But I am on your side. Don't confuse the two. You hate me because I'm blunt and have no patience for wasted time or wasted words. Because I'm not nice. Well, a lot of nice people are nice because they've figured out it's a great way to get things from other people. Some of the slimiest snakes I've run across have been nice. So let me tell you now, if you ever see me resort to being nice, run.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

The saint is a good Welshwoman, and knows her countrymen. We are not quick in respect to rank or riches, we do not doff and bow and scrape when any man flaunts himself before us. We are blunt and familiar even in praise. What we value we value in the heart, and

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

One of my unique features as a politician is that I am so blunt and so forthright, and I put my cards on the table to such a degree people aren't used to, that there's nothing left to hide.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer.

You're as sharp as a marble.

At his shoulder, Arno Blunt continued staring at Butler. The Fowl bodyguard blinked freely: in the event of confrontation, dry eyeballs would only lessen his advantage. Staring matches were for amateurs.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Unix never says "please."

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.

In an age when everyone else is terribly concerned with political correctness, my husband's preaching is uncommonly blunt. Perhaps that's the secret of his success.