#vague

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

#because #came #elvis #gene #greased

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ↗

— Charles Ives

#nearness #perfect #times #truth #vagueness

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. ↗

— Bernard Levin

#going #him #however #man #probably

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

#bad #bad idea #been #continue #finished

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts. ↗

— Richard Owen

#before #darwin #elude #facts #history

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#ask #correction #disorder #expect #linguistic

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#idea #should #vague #vague idea #you

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

— J. L. Austin

#properly #themselves #uses #usually #vague

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#acquaintance #admitted #allowed #although #anyone

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. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#blonde #cannot #frank #great #i