Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.'

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.

Pink

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

Tracy McMillan

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

Robert Kirshner

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.

Antoine Rivarol

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

Orhan Pamuk

Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

Jenna Fischer

Well, now that I have a baby, I'm that person who's looking for all the parks. I'm also the person who lost their coat because I was juggling so many items. So I'm that person: I lost my coat, I lost my scarf, and it's cold now.

Jessica Raine

I have a gorgeous coat that I found at a vintage fair - it's just so elegant. Unfortunately, it has a massive hole underneath the arm, as I think I may have worn it to death!

Antonio Davis

I don't think it's fair for them to tell you exactly how to dress. You can't say no jeans. I've seen businessmen in jeans, a sports coat and nice shirt, and you say that's classy.

Cassandra Naus

When he was in the police officers squad car, he was shaking, after I had even put a coat on him.

Harold Jewett

If we could imagine the person who killed Pamela Vitale was wearing a coat with a knife with a mask, it may have looked a lot like that.

Eddie Jordan

Gilbert had the fire in his eyes and he had it going. He just edged us on and we rode his coat tails.

Bryan Ferry

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

Bethenny Frankel

Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.

William Shakespeare

You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

Rich Rodriguez

Heck, it's still the Sugar Bowl. We're in the Sugar Bowl, but just not back there.

Alan Sugar

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.

Alan Sugar

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

Alan Sugar

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

Charles Lamb

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

John Berry

too young to have worked with mules, but old enough to have worked in a sugar mill.

Bill Joy

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

David Bailey

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

Kevin Kruger

We've had enough things go wrong this season.

Anthony Schlegel

We've done it for a while. We're just going to keep it rolling. There's nothing wrong with that -- just have a little fun.

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Warren Littlefield

I think if you're not comfortable with change, you're in the wrong business, ... It's all about change.

Tim Woods

Unfortunately sometimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Phyllis Oakley

We are on the wrong track, and we need a fundamental change,

Marc Crawford

Only if it's the wrong message. I know it wasn't wrong.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.