In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss… — Anton Chekhov 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
Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me.… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I'm sure that inside your heart... you're trying with all your might to find it on your own... the reason you were… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
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
He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything. — Kate Morton 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
I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of 'Vogue China.' It was a bizarre ambition, as I… — Katie McGrath 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
Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“But to my questions he gave replies so vague that one could not tell whether they came from the mountains or the… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make… — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague. — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
I don't see that there is a credible threat for American action - the rhetoric of the U.S. President is too vague,… — Tzachi Hanegbi Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde 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
I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I just got a car, and I gotta say, this car is very cryptic. The very first day I drove it, a… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play… — Tennessee Williams 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
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
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
When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film… — Radha Mitchell Copy Share Image