Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Truscott

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.

Doyle Childers

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.

Mike Fratello

You understand if you don't win, the season is over. It's as cold and as blunt as that.

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.

Jack Cardetti

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

J. Taylor

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

Chris McGill

They would have been impacted by the waves and rain but not by the blunt force. There will be parts of the Gulf where they will be up and running in 48 hours, but there will be other extremes of structural damage that may take weeks or months to repair.

John Lyly

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

Rob Johnson

James has been in that situation before, so I knew he was going to step up for us.

Bob Bryan

He's kind of laid back but James pulls off his share of tricks.

Pryce Underwood

I thought we couldn't win without James in there. He is our big guy, and we were a little out of sync without him.

John Heard

Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Ursula Andress

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

Andy Serkis

If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.

Ricky Carmichael

I'm not settling in, the points are too close. James (Stewart) is obviously riding really well.

Lamont Dozier

You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

William Ralph Inge

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Lara Stone

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

John Laird

I just think I was sent up here to vote,

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.