#vague

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#guaranteed #make #only #something #vague

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#because #consider #desire #despise #go

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

#dead #end #evermore #i #like

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#around #art #did #fantasy #film

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#doing #eating #enjoyable #feel #going

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

#felt #i #i think #know #more

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#any #conscious #generality #i #i am

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

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#evolution #know #proceeds #vague

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#around #began #forty #i #know

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#best #boundaries #death #divide #ends