Representative DEMOCRACY is a remarkably BLUNT INSTRUMENT. Hundreds of ISSUES are bundled together at every election, yet the VOTE tends to swing on just one or two of them.

Chekhov - SHALL I be blunt? - is the greatest short STORY writer who EVER LIVED.

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of SANITY required to RUN for OFFICE. The LIMITED reward for public SERVICE cannot blunt the cost.

In more tangible TERMS, the pumpkin SPICE latte shares MANY of the qualities that endear conservative POLITICIANS to their supporters and arouse DISGUST in their opponents. It's blunt, common, and unapologetically American.

Really, Donald Trump's ENTIRE message is that PEOPLE LIKE Sen. BLUNT are the problem.

The CLOCK, for all its PRECISION in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a MOMENT, clock TIME can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

I WANTED to take up MUSIC, so my father BOUGHT me a blunt INSTRUMENT. He told me to knock myself out.

I am just FORTHCOMING - completely BLUNT and HONEST.

My INCENTIVE in STARTING Vanguard, I'm very blunt about this, it was my means of preserving my CAREER. That's a very selfish THING.

Fame was initially this KIND of BLUNT tool that was thrust into my HANDS very young.

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.

There was an obvious display of blatant sexism when I couldn't get signed. They didn't say I was ugly. They didn't say that they didn't LIKE the MUSIC. They said I was too old! At 26! So Badly Drawn Boy, Doves, Elbow, James Blunt - you can be a gnarly old beardy bloke with a BIT of a paunch and that's all RIGHT?

My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj STARTED WEARING that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I POSSESS, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The BIGGEST form of flattery is IMITATION, so I'm flattered.

It's never REALLY been my INTENTION; I've never gone out of my WAY to be relatable to anyone. I just say what I want, and I'm PRETTY blunt about things.

Emily BLUNT helped me STUDY for a SPANISH TEST, and I GOT an A+ on it!