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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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