Vague Quotes

Passion is born of vague hopes.

— Charles Handy

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

— Freeman Dyson

“- vague, very vague.”

— Erskine Childers

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

— Walter Kirn

Vague goals produce vague results

— Jack Canfield

The vague torment of ... ambition.

— Emile Zola

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

— Carrie Fisher

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

— Judith Martin

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

— Andrew Bird

“Toward an eternal aspiration for vague things.”

— Anonymous

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

— Mason Cooley

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

— Pablo Picasso

“How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?”

— Paul Valéry

I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

— Mason Cooley

“The name Hamito-Semitic, derived from the Bible, is deliberately vague.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

If I'm vague enough nobody will realize I'm talking out my ass

— Aclark1207

“I fight with the urge to be poetically vague like a fleeting rainfall, and the craving to be analytically thorough like a…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which…

— John Tukey

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

— PZ Myers

It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.

— Chris Asplen

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind…

— Herman Koch

“Sometimes I feel like this. Sometimes I feel like that. I wish I could be more specific, but that’s how I feel—vague.”

— Jarod Kintz

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide…

— Eric Hoffer

Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be,…

— Leo Lionni

The reward of the young scientist is the emotional th rill of being the first person in the history of the world…

— Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in…

— Teddy Wayne

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing…

— Sam Keen

I tend to learn things physically - I guess it's my dance training. I never want to make too many choices too…

— Sharon Lawrence

There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools…

— Laurie Garrett

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are,…

— Ira Glass

I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately…

— George F. Kennan

An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague,…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually…

— Igor Stravinsky

As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away…

— Jean Cocteau

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical…

— Willa Cather

When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of…

— Stephen King

Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to…

— Sigmund Freud