Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself. — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like this. Sometimes I feel like that. I wish I could be more specific, but that’s how I feel—vague.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I fight with the urge to be poetically vague like a fleeting rainfall, and the craving to be analytically thorough like a… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse. — Chris Asplen Copy Share Image
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
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
The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future… — Iain Sinclair 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
I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde 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
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us… — Albert M. Wolters Copy Share Image
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. — John Updike Copy Share Image
My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. — Laurence Sterne 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
