Quotes About Ambiguity

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.

You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them.

Ted Cruz is the Schroedinger's cat of politicians. He is both eligible and not eligible to be president.

I think that is why this is an important show for teenagers to see because the important thing about 'Heathers' is that nothing is black and white, and it takes those grey areas and really explores them and really delves in their intricacies.

I think the most appealing characters for the audience are the ones that you never know whether to root for them or whether to hate them. That's what keeps people drawn to their television sets.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.

I don't mind telling a dark side.

Fifteen minutes shy of two o'clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.

I'll win the way I always do by being gone when they come. When they look, they'll see nothing of me and where I am they'll not know. This, I thought, is my way and right or wrong it's me. Being dead, then, I'll have won completely.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.—Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

That story had at its core a discussion of my fundamental view that nothing in life is certain and that, consequently, all decisions are about probabilities.

A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.

There are always loose ends in real life.

It was difficult for him to decide whether she was sincere, or performing her own character; her beauty got in the way, like a thick cobweb through which it was difficult to see her clearly.

They might have something else.

Her new boss seemed to be a person of many names.

but I can't stand the idea that I'll go to my grave never knowing what happened.

He had an odd double impression of being exactly where he belonged, and where he'd never belonged, of intense familiarity and of separateness.

We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. We see the things we do not yearn to see Around us: and what see we glancing back? Christina Rossetti Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets

withdrawn smugness of unexplained wealth.

It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other.