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.

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.

Katharine Barondeau

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.

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.

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.

Pink

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

Dante Alighieri

From a little spark bursts a mighty flame

Charles Pradilla

There are these little bursts of good news in the tech area.

Teresa Heinz

I couldn't not be who I am. That bubble eventually bursts down the road. So you just have to be real, and when you goof up, say you goofed up.

Scott Roesch

Extremely short content works well in the world of Web snacking, where people are looking for short bursts of entertaining content.

Neil Gehrels

We designed Swift to look for faint bursts coming from the edge of the Universe.

Marie Rutkoski

There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a scene in the novel where there's a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood.

Donald Lamb

This is what we've all been waiting and hoping for. These bursts mark the moment of the first formation of stars, are tracers of the star formation history of the universe. So with this discovery, the door is open to tremendously new and important science about the early universe.

Philip Gibbs

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

Christopher Fry

Run on, keep your head down, cross at the double / The bursts of open day between the nights.

Doug Aitken

'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.

Ryan Murphy

I didn't want it to feel like a slasher movie, ... I wanted it to be a little more kabuki and delicate and weird.

Fran Wallis

Ginger is delicate and fragile, and Ginger is looking for her partner. So it fit.

Floyd Abrams

There is a great reluctance on the part of journalists..to pick up the phone and sort of badger sources into relieving them of the promises they made, especially at the time that the promises are most important, when the source is in trouble. This is a very difficult and very delicate area.

William Wordsworth

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;And humble cares, and delicate fears;A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;And love and thought and joy.

Howard Staunton

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.

C. L. R. James

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

Carlo Ancelotti

We are going through a delicate time and we must overcome this situation as soon as possible. We are making mistakes and as usual in football you pay for them.

Joan Claybrook

Overall, this measure is insufficient because it focuses on disclosing corruption, rather than deterring it.

Source Unknown

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

Jacques Chirac

It is a measure of protection and precaution,

Armondo Cima

I think we are getting more used to each other. From that point of view we are making measured progress in that area.

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

C. S. Lewis

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Brett Basanez

That's the risk you take in the shotgun. But it was nothing serious.

Scott Riggs

That's the risk when you come down here with no points.

John Barlow

That's a world worth taking a risk for,

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Charles Bass

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Charles Babbage

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Ayn Rand

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

Carine Roitfeld

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

Alain de Botton

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Hon Ip

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.