“Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false”
Charles Sanders Peirce
“Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.”
Chris Van Allsburg
“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.”
Crispin Glover
“to cherish them when they need to be cherished.”
Sally Smith
“Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;Corruption wins not more than honesty.”
William Shakespeare
“No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.”
Henry Miller
“Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”
William Allen White