Indistinct Quotes

#1. Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.

H.W. Brands

#2. From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.

H.P. Lovecraft

#3. Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

Arthur Helps

#4. In a big city you become a ghost; you walk on the crowded streets and realise that you are a kind of transparent entity; an indistinct being, a thing which is not something!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#6. Dim or indistinct views of sin are the origin of most of the errors, heresies and false doctrines of the present day. If

J.C. Ryle

#7. After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

Rachel Joyce

#8. I've never seen what he looks like but his disembodied voice is almost godlike in the way it booms from nowhere and reaches everyone, in the way it's terribly indistinct but probably trying to tell us something. Now

Sara Baume

#9. swallowed by another noise: an indistinct thudder.

Alena Graedon

#10. The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

Allan Kaprow

#11. Knowing that she was beautiful, she felt convinced, though in an indistinct way, that she had a weapon. Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

Victor Hugo

#12. Sometimes in the corner of my eye, I saw a girl running through the loft. A see-through girl, a silhouette. She looked the way the world looks without my glasses. Vaguely hued, indistinct. She looked the way a body looks underwater, lost in the blur of bubble and wave.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#13. Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#14. I was always a distinct no-one, whose fiercest wish was to be an indistinct someone.

John Banville

#15. We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#16. Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.

Marcel Proust

#17. Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.

Walter Isaacson

#18. A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

Victor Hugo

#19. I am an impatient, temperamental reader. Anything long-winded, high-flown or gushing irritates me, so does everything that is vague and indistinct, in fact anything that unnecessarily holds the reader up, whether in a novel, a biography or an intellectual argument.

Stefan Zweig

#20. The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Charles Dickens

#21. Anger looked like fireworks. Love was an indistinct blur.

Jenny Offill

#22. That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

Henry David Thoreau

#23. That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

William Shakespeare

#24. They were an indistinct blur of pastel and white uniforms, like chalk doodles on a sidewalk in the rain

Gabrielle Zevin

#25. The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward most, somehow upend what I expect from memoir and the project seems greater than just the exposition of a life.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#26. Irish-looking,' Halley said, by which she meant a collection of indistinct features - pale skin, mousy hair, general air of ill-health - that combine to mysteriously powerful romantic effect.

Paul Murray

#27. Philosophers have argued without a trend toward order; time would lack meaning. The future would be indistinguishable from the past. Sequences of events would be just so many random scenes from a thousand novels. History would be indistinct, like the mist slowly gathered by treetops in evening.

Alan Lightman

#28. SHE FELT a hard pinch on her neck. "Hey!" she protested. Her eyelids flew open. The light was unbearably bright, just as painful, but everything was gauzy and indistinct, like there was a white scrim over everything. She wondered whether she'd fallen back asleep for several hours.

Joseph Finder

#29. Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#30. His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His

John Connolly

#31. [on John Cowper Powys] ... there is an indistinct photograph of the great man himself, gazing into the misty cleft of a mountain range, wearing what could be an old rug, or an old cardigan. He looks like a cross between an aged werewolf and a puzzled child.

Margaret Drabble

#32. Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.

Pierre Schaeffer

#33. How Gloomy it is, to pause, to cease and to rust unburn, to get used and be indistinct. Like to live is to breathe.

Abhijit Tripathi

#34. One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

Charlie Brooker