#blunt

A blunt statement can be as false as any other. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#blunt #false #other #statement

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#axe #axes #blunt #equally #impossible

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#authentic #blunt #brash #christie #governor

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#back #bluntly #go #hotel #i

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#defined #instruments #jazz #more #much

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#differently #disposition #feel #happens #i

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#business #given #headaches #king #me

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#blunt #justice #our #points #subtle

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

— Alexander Pope

#blunt #counsel #enough #falsehoods #mischief

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#blunt #confuse #stimulating