Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Grenville

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Sheryl Sandberg

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

Missouri?s economy has consistently improved since Governor Blunt took office. The growth in new jobs over the past year is good news for Missouri families and our state economy.

John Hancock

The fact is that Congressman Blunt has a senior leadership position in the Congress of the United States, and that can only be good for Missouri.

Feist

When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

Tracy McMillan

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

Pink

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

We don't know much about bursts so there is a risk this is misleading. It is a blunt tool to measure a delicate effect.

David Harsanyi

Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.

He's always been known for straight talk and blunt talk ? never shied away from that. And that just hasn't been there recently,

Kenny Guinn

He will always tell you how it is, and he won't sugar coat it, ... He will be blunt and to the point. He will tell you when you are going wrong and when you are doing right.

Export growth will remain solid in the months immediately ahead, which ought to help blunt (but not fully offset) the detrimental effect on the trade deficit of a likely acceleration in import growth.

With every phone call and every meeting Congressman Blunt has with his colleagues, he is engaged in the vigorous debate over the future of our party.

John Shadegg

We already have defections from the Blunt list, and we expect more. Vote counts in this sort of race are notoriously inaccurate. I am in this race to the finish.

Matthew Shepard died as a result of the blunt trauma injuries he sustained to his head and face.

Honeysuckle Weeks

I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.

Eli Broad

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.

Or, my scrofulous French novel / On grey paper with blunt type! / Simply glance at it, you grovel / Hand and foot in Belial's gripe.

Often the deputy solicitor general is simply passing on and concurring with something someone else has written, ... Hypothetically, there could be a case sometime where Roberts would say that some position conflicted with the administration's political agenda, but I doubt Roberts would ever be so blunt or bold as to say this.

Kofi Annan

Sanctions are a blunt weapon and sometimes it tends to hurt the innocent people,

They didn't get the blunt end of it.

Allan Gregg

This particular appointment seems to blunt and mute the opposition where it's most pronounced, which is in the province of Quebec.

Electing Representative Blunt means choosing more of the same corruption plaguing the system now.

Blunt is an insider. He is soft-spoken, but a hardcore right-winger who has very close relations with the business community and ideological conservatives. He's not as much of a lightning rod as DeLay.

John Dryden

So sicken waning moons too near the sun,/ And blunt their crescents on the edge of day.

Judy Johnson

We cannot decide if she is blunt or sharp

Jimmy Swaggart

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm going to be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died.

Rahul Dravid

We expected them to go for such flat pitches to blunt our bowlers.

J. Taylor

Congressman Blunt sees no problem with being in a different place from the Chamber on this legislation.

Michael Smith

The blunt reality is that we got five of the seven, what you might call tax-and-spenders, from the previous councils that are still on council.

The Blunt administration took steps that actually weakened the state's position in BRAC.

He and Mr. Blunt have no contact on legislative issues.

If problems develop, we will rescind the authorization. This is in line with the direction Gov. (Matt) Blunt provided when he ordered us to shut down RES in December.