Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the… — Arnaud Desplechin Copy Share Image
The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or… — Luis Suarez Copy Share Image
People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers… — Gerald Lawson Sittser Copy Share Image
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there… — Agostino Scilla Copy Share Image
Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought,… — J. Allan Hobson Copy Share Image
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath… — John Clare Copy Share Image
We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
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