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Passion is born of vague hopes.
Leia follows me like a vague smell.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend
I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.
It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.
I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.
One must confront vague ideas with clear images.
I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.
Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.
Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.
Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.
Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
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?
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
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.
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 made precise.
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 vague, like a breeze among flowers.
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 longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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 a very essential element in thinking.
My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.
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, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
My sense is that you can make a film under almost any circumstances. As long as someone has a vague idea of what he's doing, something distinctive will emerge. That, to me, is what film making is all about.
You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.
I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I got the role, I had never even seen a Bond film and had only had a vague notion about the idea of a Bond girl.
I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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 this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
I think the first team I ever played for was a YMCA team, probably around when I was seven years old. And really I have vague memories of it. I think, at that age, you're just trying to make sure the ball stays in bounds.
I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.