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

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

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

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

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

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
Laura Bush

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Edgar Lee Masters

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

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
Ernest Istook

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
Neil Cavuto

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

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

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

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

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