I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will… — Evan Peters 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
As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
I always loved Japanese movies. And they had an enormous impact in France - the Nouvelle Vague took so much from them.… — Jacques Perrin Copy Share Image
We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal,… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
The religions are the buildings or the institutions, the groups, but inside of that is what moves, is what's alive, is the… — Surya Das 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
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
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
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
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
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
I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal… — Bob Dylan 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
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved… The precise… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to… — Walter Pater 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
I really don't worry too much about what I see through the viewfinder, at least not at that point, especially if I'm… — John Divola Copy Share Image
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It… — Brian Tracy 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
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena… But when they come to… — Carl von Clausewitz 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
Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
