I was interesting in discovering more about [Elizabeth Taylor], and I always tried to focus more on the woman than the legend or the icon and everybody's own individual version of what that is. She was badass! Really strong. And eccentric and fiery and powerful and clear and blunt. Spoke like a sailor. She was extreme, but she had the ability to love again and again and again and still believe in it every time.
Rather than asking architecture to be more interdisciplinary - a perennial issue within the discipline - I am suggesting that other disciplines might exploit the powers of architecture and urbanism. When addressing urgent situations, whether it's the depletion of the rainforest or abuse of labor, well-meaning people are working with tools, like standards, that seem like very blunt instruments. I am suggesting that spatial variables that are underexploited in governance might add to that repertoire.
Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind?. . . A short, blunt human pyramid. . . ?
Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.
Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me. " "I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said.
I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
A blunt a day will take the pain away.
Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent. There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.
I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it. " She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.
Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?
It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.
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.