For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

- George Stephen

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

- J. L. Austin

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

- Joseph Hume

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

- John C. Crosby

The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.

- Josh Schwartz

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

- John Deacon

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

- Johnny Depp

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

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

- Hoagy Carmichael

I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

- Gero Miesenbock

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

- Aleister Crowley

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

- George Ade

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

- David Lloyd

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

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

- Charles Sanders Peirce

I do have a vague recollection of reviving the cover of The Beatles' 'Every Little Thing,' but I don't know if that was just our riffing on it in rehearsal. I don't think we ever did it actually in the show.

- Chris Squire

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

- Chris Isaak

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

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

- Carrie Fisher

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

- C. S. Lewis