Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday… — Grant Wood 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
That's a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague… — Nicholas Sparks 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
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
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 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
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
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
“If the future was so vague it meant perhaps that she was destined never to see it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.” — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a… — David Cook Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like this. Sometimes I feel like that. I wish I could be more specific, but that’s how I feel—vague.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones… — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much… — Caitlin Thomas 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
The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true,… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I… — Francesca DiMattio Copy Share Image
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied… — John Locke Copy Share Image