Vague Quotes

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?

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

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

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

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 is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

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.

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 like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

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.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

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.

The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.