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.

- Jimmy Swaggart

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.

- Rosamund Pike

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

- Pat Metheny

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

- Nate Silver

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

- Mason Cooley

Emily Blunt helped me study for a Spanish test, and I got an A+ on it!

- Lilla Crawford

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

- Lester B. Pearson

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

- Lao Tzu

People say I'm tough and too blunt. I'm a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.

- Joanne Liu

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

- Josh Hartnett

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

- Alexander Pope

I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.

- Honeysuckle Weeks

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

- Eric Topol

I'll be blunt: Money's gotten buggy.

- Dan Kaminsky

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

- Dorothy Allison

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

- Charlie Bell

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

- Conor Oberst

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

- Chinua Achebe

We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

- Barry Ritholtz

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

- Barbara Walters