Vague Quotes
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Passion is born of vague hopes.
Charles Handy -
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
William Golding
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin -
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Pablo Picasso -
Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....
Robert Frost -
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.
Alice James -
A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Ugo Betti
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Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The vague torment of ... ambition.
Emile Zola -
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved.... The precise theory has never been proved at all. However, like relativity, it is accepted on faith.... On getting down to actual details, difficulties begin.
Anthony Standen -
He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
Kate Morton -
Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
Johnny Depp -
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
George Eliot
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I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
Catherine Webb -
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.
Sarah Dessen -
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
Epictetus -
Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
Ernest Cline -
The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.
Denis Donoghue
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very difficult to address what's going on.
Emily Barton -
I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.
Lao Tzu -
I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.
Kate Morton