Blunt Quotes

218 Blunt quotes by 172 unique authors

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt. — Anne Hathaway
I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues… — Elizabeth Warren
I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything. — Roy Blunt
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. — John Lyly
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into… — Kenny Smith
On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt." — Coolio
Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles,… — Martina Navratilova
Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to… — Unknown Author
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise… — Joseph Conrad
I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,… — Agatha Christie
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make… — Dorothy Allison
The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood… — Jay Griffiths
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. — Erica Jong
What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid? — Tom Stoppard
Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C. — Lindsey Graham
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… — Alain de Botton
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones. — Alain de Botton
A blunt statement can be as false as any other. — Mason Cooley
Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young. — Josh Hartnett
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because… — Nathan Myhrvold
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that… — Unknown Author
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… — Richard M. Nixon
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike. — Conor Oberst
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. — Blaise Pascal
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. — Lester B. Pearson

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