Top 741 Vague Quotes & Sayings

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

I'm congenitally vague.

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

If you want to write a love song, you need to not try to write it for a particular person in a particular situation. It needs to be vague, otherwise you're going to fall into trap after trap of trying to rhyme with somebody's name. Keep it vague.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

One must confront vague ideas with clear images.

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.

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

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

I absolutely do not think that I have even a vague recollection of what normal life is like.

Actually, climate change is really about the wellbeing of people. It is not a very vague concept or a vague problem that is out of our everyday lives. It is actually affecting our everyday lives, and this is the fundamental fact that everybody should keep in mind while working toward a low-carbon society.

Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.

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've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.

One quality of a good songwriter is to be vague. A vague notion, a vague image, but enough to give the listener the opportunity to make more out of what's being said than is there. That's the great thing about Bob Dylan's songs: We the listeners have made more out of them than he ever intended.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

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.

I wear Doc Martens leather boots, so I'm not a vegan. I am a vague-one.

Intuitionists think that there are cases in which, say, some identity statement between real numbers is neither true nor false, even though we know that it cannot possibly be false. That is: We know that it cannot not be that a = b, say, but we cannot conclude that a = b. We can't, in general, move from not-not-p to p in intuitionistic logic. , I suggest that the believer in vague objects should say something similar. It can never be true that it is vague whether A is B. But that does not imply that there is always a fact of the matter whether A is B.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

I have a very vague surface level awareness of Metallica.

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

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

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

I only have vague memories of the Radio 1 days because it was quite a time.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

Vague goals produce vague results

When you look at that key question what is President-elect [Donald] Trump going to do, it's hard to glean that from his campaign. The kind of - the promise is vague and sweeping, but vague in places. Also contradictory at times.

Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not making a film to give your opinion but just as a piece of art, which to me means the Nouvelle Vague.

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

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

Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in vague generalities. You get applause for slogans. And then governing comes. And governing is tedious and it's difficult an it's time-consuming and it demands your attention. And policy isn't vague generalities. It's specifics and it's based on knowledge.

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

Passion is born of vague hopes.

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.

The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film [Takeshis'], I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.

Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

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