Vague Quotes

Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend

A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.

The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

My wife at times will say I'm stubborn, selfish, insensitive, vague, deaf at times, blah, blah, blah... but she's never said I was boring!

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable.

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.

Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.

Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff.

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 cameo.

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.