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Words penetrated the tank from the outer room. They were tantalizing, like those ghosts of meaning in a great symphony hinting that the composer had caught a glimpse of something notes could only vaguely convey and words could never even approach.
david brin— Chapter 49 (p. 261)
I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.
harlan ellison— Introduction of "How's the Night Life on Cissalda" (1977) in Shatterday (1990)
I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.
terry pratchett— alt.fan.pratchett (5 July 1992)
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
saki— "The Innocence of Reginald"
There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
ani difranco— Animal
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright (The deed of gift was many deeds of war) To the land vaguely realizing westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she would become.
robert frost— "The Gift Outright" (1941)
Your saving grace, Danielle, is that you make the rest of your kind look vaguely human.
william ford gibson— Ch. 25 (Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988))
I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn’t need to be given “permission” to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.
charles foster johnson— January 26, 2007 [11]
We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.
albert jay nock— p. 38 (Our Enemy, the State (1935))
To discover meaning is somehow to see the relatedness with everything else,/ However vaguely it may be;./ To find meaning is to see the purpose of things,/ However hazily it may be.
kuruvilla pandikattu— Life: Relish It!
Howard Hughes, according to his own account, was born in Houston, Texas, on December 24, 1905. The vaguely biblical feel of the date was probably intentional, because it wasn't true. Baptismal records show he was actually born in September of that year in a small Texan town called, ironically, Humble.
— David Thomson in "The High Flyer" in The Age (29 January 2006)
That man could take a visitation from God with thirty underdressed angels announcing that sex was okay after all and make it seem vaguely depressing.
— Epilogue (p. 560) (Leviathan Wakes (2011))
Occupied by the Portuguese for four and a half centuries, traces of the European influence are still there...where the laid-back, susegado (contentment, not laziness) is vaguely palpable. Legend has it that a Portuguese captain Diogo de Mello first found it because it was a storm that forced him to take shelter there while on his way to Ormuz .
— Ervell E. Menezes, in "Lotus of the marshlands (31 July 2005)"
Even if we can never quantify [satisfaction or happiness]….as precisely as we currently quantify GNP,….perhaps it is better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
— Hermany Daly and Joshua Farley, in Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications. (2003), page 234. quoted in Beyond GDP Measuring progress, true wealth, and the well-being of nations, European Commission:Environment
