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...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future. — Dan Harris

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague. — Walter Kirn

A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend — Joss Whedon

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar. — Johnny Depp

Toward an eternal aspiration for vague things. — Valery Larbaud

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. — Jim Nussle

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. — Edward Carpenter

The vague torment of ... ambition. — Emile Zola

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. — Wassily Kandinsky

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need. — Ewan McGregor

Nobody will ever hurt her. She'll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away. — Neil Gaiman

Under the vague dullness of the gray hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object and finds it in the privation of an untried good. — George Eliot

I don't understand it either. Obscure and vague, but intelligent. 'Everybody writes like that now, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing. — Michael K. Powell

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser

Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly
has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. — A.W. Tozer

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. — Charles Sanders Peirce

When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda. — Peter Englund

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

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything. — Kate Morton

Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite. — Alain De Botton

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. — William Butler Yeats

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For as long as he could remember, he'd suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there. — Douglas Adams

A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy ... — Theodore Dreiser

[ ... ] the beginning of things, of a world especially is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. — Kate Chopin

Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia. — E.J. Koh

Jim's vague understanding was that she had so much money that a strict job description was superfluous. — Emma Straub

My wife at times will say I'm stubborn, selfish, insensitive, vague, deaf at times, blah, blah, blah ... but she's never said I was boring! — Henry Cho

How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague? — Paul Valery

Malcolm gestures in the vague direction of ugly sad lonely crap, which as it happens is toward Times Square. — Chris Pavone

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself. — Katie Roiphe

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

Passion is born of vague hopes. — Charles Handy

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

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. — Vincent Van Gogh

Before such calm external beauty the presence of a vague fear is more distinctly felt - like a raven flapping its slow wing across the sunny air. — George Eliot

Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain. — Federico Garcia Lorca

And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion. — Ani DiFranco

I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it. — Hunter S. Thompson

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. — Laurence Sterne

deliberately vague, attention-seeking Facebook statuses are for thirteen-year-old girls. — Luke Smitherd

vague as a soft copper pulse of moonlight through blossoming sea coast fog. — Ellen Hopkins

I'm good at being vague and unpredictable. It's sort of a hard habit to break. — Elle Lothlorien

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague "she" of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert

Don't place some vague moral judgement on yourself based on what others might think. Don't waste your energy. — E.L. James

He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. — John Cheever

For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. "Talking therapy is dead," Gary said when she raised the idea. "It's all pills now. — Rafael Yglesias

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. — Neil Gaiman

It is ... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague. — Charles Sanders Peirce

I cannot organize my behaviour optimally if my goal is merely "to do my best." The assignment is too vague. — Nathaniel Branden

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

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings. — Hannah Murray

California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people. — Bernard DeVoto

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

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain. — Robert Frost

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers. — Ellen Glasgow

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

Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Language, loose language, vague language becomes an out. Things happen. — Rebecca Solnit

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

She had a vague idea that "decadent" had something to do with not opening the curtains all day. — Terry Pratchett

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates ... — Patti Smith

I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable. — Oscar Wilde

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

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile. — Alfred Austin

I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism. — David Thorne

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion? — Kate Griffin

She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy. — Frances Hardinge

Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable. — Robin Roberts

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space. — Don DeLillo

that is just why a vague religion - all about feeling God in nature, and so on - is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work: — C.S. Lewis

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

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

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo. — Arthur Smith

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. — Richard P. Feynman

I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom — Douglas Adams

Leia follows me like a vague smell. — Carrie Fisher

"There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population." — Paul Rusesabagina

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

My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky. — Janet Fitch

I am not thrilled by the idea that I am entering a vague in-between, after the intensity of conversion and before the calm wisdom of cronehood. — Lauren F. Winner

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
— Henry David Thoreau

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
— John Updike

An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it. — Ayn Rand

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

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories. — Natalie Goldberg

There had been vague threats and seductive hands and nachos and beer, but Oscar hadn't noticed an offer, per se. — Steve Himmer

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

Do you think we should tell the police?" "Not yet. We don't have anything to tell them. Only some vague suspicions." "Ok, but be careful. Got an — Maighread MacKay

Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel. — Elif Shafak

Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them? — Veronica Roth

The figures of our speaking are like pictures of names. Vague, weak names, but names nonetheless. Be mindful of them. — Patrick Rothfuss

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere. — Harper Lee

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves ... — Leigh Hunt