(61 quotes found)
“All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.”
Charles Sanders Peirce
“'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away,And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.”
W. H. Auden
“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood”
Laurence Sterne
“Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false”
“By then, I'll just be someone people vaguely remember.”
Christy Turlington
“Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know. [When asked what colour her hair is]”
Cate Blanchett
“The slogan is so vague,”
Charlie Brown
“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
“If you can't be kind, at least be vague”
Judith S. Marin
“An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a whiz and eating a sandwich”
Dean Allen
