For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse. — Chris Asplen Copy Share Image
“The name Hamito-Semitic, derived from the Bible, is deliberately vague.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings:… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality,… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I tend to learn things physically - I guess it's my dance training. I never want to make too many choices too… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
In the long run I don't think anyone can overlook these images of hunger, that people can ignore all my pictures -… — Werner Bischof Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid… — William Farr Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
