Quotes of: Vagueness Keyword

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

J. L. Austin

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Course in General Linguistics

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

Steve Coogan

I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.

Joel Murray

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

Christopher Nolan

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:

Confessions

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

Lock and Key

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.

Emma McLaughlin

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

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

Martin Freeman

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

Baby, Don't Go

The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.

Thomas Frank

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Karl Lagerfeld

The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.

Steven A. Cohen

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

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

John C. Crosby

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

Don DeLillo

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

William Manchester

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Felix Mendelssohn

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

Aleister Crowley

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

Engleby