Best 58 quotes in «blunt quotes» category

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

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

I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the truth. And I've always wanted people to tell me the truth.

On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.

The bilateral relationship is unshakable, but playing politics with that relationship could blunt Secretary Kerry's enthusiasm for being Israel's primary defender.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!" Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, "Then I have succeeded, Blunt.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.

The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.

Insincerity was taxing once you’d breathed the refreshing air of artless candor.

There is no future in the past. Any tour into the past is perhaps courage to live at the average level as you did; old and cold, blind and blunt! Come out! Out of the past and change position. You matter, your future matters

What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?

I wish I could have told you how much talking and writing to you meant to me all year. How you were my bullshit detector. How you listened and kept me true, even when I wanted to block my ears, because you had no filter between your thoughts and your mouth. How you were my best friend, and how it was only because of you that I never felt isolated or desperate to attach myself to anyone at Laurinda.

We probably shouldn't be friends," I told her, stretching out on the sofa. "I've been thinking about it, and I see no reason to continue.

There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

You scream it in everything you do. You’re holding on to what happened because you think that’s all you have.” “It is all I have.” “Find more

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Why did Nicky call me the Baby Killer?" Kiara sniffled. "Because she is a bitch," Leontes said. Jaeger gave him a chastising look. "She's dead." "Dying did not make her any less of a bitch," Leontes replied.

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me." "I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said.

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

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

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.

Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?

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 can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.