A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always feel like a vague failure in L.A. - it always makes me feel like I should somehow be different than… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Of all conceivable things that which is most alien to their spirit is to sacrifice any distinct interest or particular right to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
People choose the most flattering photos of themselves to put on Facebook. Text messages can be vague and confusing. But conversations are… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain… — George Sand Copy Share Image
It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies… — Oskar Schlemmer Copy Share Image
I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
“AAAAIIIE! You're the guy with the things, and the thing that does that thing, and then you did that one thing! Oh,… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes… — Barrows Dunham Copy Share Image
I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and… — Jim Nussle Copy Share Image
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific,… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
“I had a vague memory of the intensity of teenage female relationships; more of a passion than a normal friendship.” — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
My wife at times will say I'm stubborn, selfish, insensitive, vague, deaf at times, blah, blah, blah... but she's never said I… — Henry Cho Copy Share Image
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
