Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles? — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“The air-conditioning was more like a vague gesture toward the abstract idea of air-conditioning.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I wonder, I thought, what I am really thinking. Last week I would have known definitely but now everything seemed vague and… — Maureen Daly Copy Share Image
Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the… — Charlotte Delbo Copy Share Image
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just… — David Frost Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will give some very vague directions to the designer that I'm working with on a particular project and they'll come… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit… — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to… — Alan Martin Copy Share Image
At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
Skewer is just too vague. I think if you say, ’Stand back or I’ll stab him in the stomach,’ then I have… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The… — Mata Hari Copy Share Image
I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules… — John Lahr Copy Share Image