“One character all messages had in common was vague generality. "Fly away with me," a tussie-mussie might suggest, but never "Meet me… — Geraldine Adamich Laufer 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
SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
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
My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague. — Malachi Kirby 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
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
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand… — Spike Jonze 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
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
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
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
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I… — Francesca DiMattio Copy Share Image
I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make… — Neil Cavuto 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
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
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to… — Josh Schwartz Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The human lanuage, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.” — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“I don't do vague. If I want to call you a coward, I will bock at you in no uncertain terms.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
