Marcia Muller

About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.

American Author

Louis Dudek

In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.

Canadian Poet

Julia Davis

I'm quite tactful, actually. I worry about whether people are all right. With my friends, obviously, conversations are quite free and uncensored, but I would never enjoy making someone feel uncomfortable at all.

English Comedian

Chris Borland

I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.

American Athlete

Bryan White

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

American Musician

Jane Harrison

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

English Writer

Sherilyn Fenn

I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that.

American Actress

James Cash Penney

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

American Businessman

Eileen Pollack

Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job.

American Novelist

Robert Gottlieb

Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away.

American Writer

Use 'tactful' when dealing with subjects that might hurt someone's feelings or cause discomfort.

Sensitive Topics

'Tactful' means being honest without being too harsh or direct.

Subtle Honesty

Being tactful often involves hinting or suggesting rather than saying something outright.

Avoiding Directness

 How do I know that was coming? Yeah. It was the first book I read and it totally got me hooked on you. But when I was so excited for the movie, after seeing it, I wondered what your opinion was on the change. - That was so tactfully said. - That was tactful. So, here's the thing about

Jodi Picoult: Leaving...

 shabby and unhygenic pit at night when it wasn't safe to venture out even to this toilet they resort to find toilets defecating in a plastic bag and then in the morning tactfully throwing it outside when no one is looking without a

Why We Need To Talk Shit...

 And they'll sit in a circle, and write the names of their loved ones on a board, who they're there to support. And collectively, the group will find out ways to tangibly and tactfully