Vaguely Quotes
128 Vaguely quotes by 112 unique authors
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Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and…
— Ken Wilber
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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller…
— Anthony Horowitz
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Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.
— Alexei Sayle
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over…
— Alberto Manguel
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The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
— Tim Winton
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Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate…
— Robin Boyd
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We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union;…
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
— Ani DiFranco
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The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale,…
— Andy Warhol
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All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.
— Barack Obama
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Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.
— Eric Hoffer
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The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see…
— Herman Wouk
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Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of…
— Phyllis McGinley
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When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd…
— George Saunders
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Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely…
— Frederick Lenz
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When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things…
— Frederick Lenz
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I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant…
— China Mieville
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They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit…
— Tobias Dantzig
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd…
— Macaulay Culkin
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The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.
— Thomas Frank
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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that…
— Michael Cunningham
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I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely…
— Colum McCann
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Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in…
— John Muir
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