For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick… — Matilde Serao Copy Share Image
Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon 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
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
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is… — Rajneesh 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
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a… — Gero Miesenbock 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
As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches.… — Jhonen Vasquez 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
People tend to be clueless about prices. Contrary to economic theory, we don't really decide between A and B by consulting our… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
“A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.” — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds.… — Pope Francis 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
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 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
