Quotes About Being Blunt

#1. I've found that being blunt sometimes makes life easier for everyone

Matthew Quick

#2. Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Barbara Walters

#3. Some people confuse being blunt with being honest.

Thomas Amo

#4. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#5. Again I ask permission to be blunt." "Ambassador Abumwe, at this point I cannot imagine you being otherwise.

John Scalzi

#6. I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.

James Blunt

#7. Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

Roy Blunt

#8. When you're playing a character for 10 years, it can challenge you less than it did at the beginning, so it was exciting to take on some new shoes. Especially with Erich Blunt, because being a tech wizard wasn't something I thought I would do after Harry Potter.

Tom Felton

#9. I'm with someone who makes me incredibly happy. I'm not one of those people who subscribes to the idea that marriage takes the romance out of things. I think it gets better, it deepens. I love being a wife. We have a blast.

Emily Blunt

#10. I was never a girl that dreamt of being a princess and I never dreamt about my wedding day. I hated pink and I hated fairies. I only liked hanging out with boys. I remember throwing a tantrum if my mum put me in pink. I wasn't a particularly girly girl.

Emily Blunt

#11. We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

Michele Bachmann

#12. People think you're being dishonest because you're just too blunt.

Holland Roden

#13. Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

James Blunt

#14. I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

Tim Gunn

#15. To be blunt, the belief in "authority" serves as a mental crutch for people seeking to escape the responsibility involved with being a thinking human being. It is an attempt to pass off the responsibility for decision-making to someone else: those claiming to have "authority.

Larken Rose

#16. Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.

Thomm Quackenbush

#17. It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

Emily Blunt

#18. When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.

Roy Blunt

#19. I believe if something needs to be said, people should say it. Blunt doesn't stab as deep as being cut by a secret.

Kate Angell

#20. I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.

Tracy McMillan

#21. I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife
inside
because there was no alternative except to hide as long
as possible
not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance:
trying to connect.

Charles Bukowski

#22. To have no desire is such a load of bullshit--forgive me for being so blunt. To have no passion in one's life is a cop-out for cowards.

Irina Kovalyova

#23. Even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!

Susan B. Anthony

#24. I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

Roy Blunt

#25. People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

Emily Blunt

#26. Before long the formed into a circle, and neither of them could imagine being a straight line again, caught in the loneliness of blunt severed ends.

Rita Leganski

#27. If you forget to water your creative spirit every day, it can begin to shrivel just as a new plant will. Your spirit thrives when the right amount of attention is given to it and so does creativity.

Pam Carriker

#28. Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Alain De Botton

#29. Yes, I can!
I certainly can!
I can have
A gratitude-flower-heart
That shall remain open
At all hours.

Sri Chinmoy

#30. Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

James Blunt