I always loved Japanese movies. And they had an enormous impact in France - the Nouvelle Vague took so much from them.… — Jacques Perrin Copy Share Image
We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal,… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick… — Matilde Serao Copy Share Image
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I really don't worry too much about what I see through the viewfinder, at least not at that point, especially if I'm… — John Divola Copy Share Image
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved… The precise… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena… But when they come to… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
When you look at that key question what is President-elect [Donald] Trump going to do, it's hard to glean that from his… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I know that's a vague answer, but you just have to really pedal yourself around town and attempt to not get too… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
People tend to be clueless about prices. Contrary to economic theory, we don't really decide between A and B by consulting our… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image