The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it… — Lee Siegel 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
“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
The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong… — Eugene McCarthy 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
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
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Set reasonable goals; not something vague and unrealistic like "I want to be super-model skinny." I always had visions of very thin… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do… — Anna Quindlen 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
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but… — Cesare Pavese 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
Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our… — Price Pritchett 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
Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive… — Daido Moriyama 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
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
Now 'pay equity' has everything to do with pay and nothing to do with equity. It’s based on the vague notion of… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when… — John Henry Carver Copy Share Image