A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Of all conceivable things that which is most alien to their spirit is to sacrifice any distinct interest or particular right to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I always feel like a vague failure in L.A. - it always makes me feel like I should somehow be different than… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific,… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches.… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the… — Hoagy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas… — Dusa McDuff Copy Share Image
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society,… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought,… — J. Allan Hobson Copy Share Image
The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and… — Jim Nussle Copy Share Image
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“I had a vague memory of the intensity of teenage female relationships; more of a passion than a normal friendship.” — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
I went to church every Sunday...I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of… — Juan Pablo Di Pace Copy Share Image
Only a handful of people are honest when they sing. A lot of people sing about very vague things, or they'll sing… — Ronnie Radke Copy Share Image
I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the… — Charlotte Delbo Copy Share Image
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find… — Alice James Copy Share Image
