Blunt Quotes

218 quotes by 184 authors

The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a… — Edward R. Murrow
I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might… — Robert Teeter
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your… — Laozi
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. — Jay London
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of… — Rachel Kushner
A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants. — Grand Puba
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the… — Bill Gates
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives. — Edmund Burke
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… — Charles Lyell
Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who… — Jimmy Wales
I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips,… — Claes Oldenburg
Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair... — Varg Vikernes
Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose. — James O. Fraser
A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one — Ray Mears
Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief. — Seneca the Younger
Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead… — Hal Turner
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions. — Alfred North Whitehead
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness… — A. E. Housman
I smoke a blunt once every blue moon. But hey, the moon looks kinda blue tonight... — Randy Moss

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