Vague Quotes

416 Vague quotes by 357 unique authors

One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place… — John Dos Passos
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking… — Havelock Ellis
Leia follows me like a vague smell. — Carrie Fisher
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is… — Helen Keller
It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing… — David Lloyd
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat… — Edgar Lee Masters
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio,… — Paul McCartney
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better… — Felix Mendelssohn
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is… — J. P. Morgan
I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it. — Christopher Nolan
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. — Pablo Picasso
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? — Edgar Allan Poe
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid… — Arthur Smith
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It… — Lysander Spooner
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. — Laurence Sterne
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be… — John Tukey
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. — John Updike
As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had… — Jhonen Vasquez
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain.… — Ellen G. White
The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do?… — Georges Perec
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. — Bertrand Russell

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