“How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“The name Hamito-Semitic, derived from the Bible, is deliberately vague.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“I cannot organize my behaviour optimally if my goal is merely "to do my best." The assignment is too vague.” — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation,… — John Deacon Copy Share Image
“The cards are too vague, and if you want an answer to come out a certain way, it does.” — Suzanne Palmieri 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
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
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
He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid… — William Farr Copy Share Image
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not… — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I only have vague memories of the Radio 1 days because it was quite a time. — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image