Quotes About Ambiguity

I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

It was a quality of my childhood that everything had these two sides. Even though things could be really beautiful and peaceful one moment, they could also be a bit chaotic or maybe terrifying in another.

This Hindi-Cheeni Bhai Bhai sloganeering is just a farce, and China has never seriously meant it. Their territorial ambitions are known to the world, and are evident in their actions on land, sea, and in the air, along every border of that country.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

As far as he could tell, he'd stopped one small bunch of bad guys killing a big bunch of bad guys and as a result the good guys got chucked out of their homes by another bunch of bad guys. Did that make him good or bad? James only knew that thinking about it gave him a headache.

Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.

Rationality will not save us.

As he put it in 1975, Labour was 'neither in favour of being in Europe on principle, or being out of the Common Market on principle'.130 Unable to commit either to membership or to withdrawal, Labour had contained its contradictions within what might be termed 'Schrödinger's Cabinet': a body that was simultaneously pro-Market and anti-Market, until such time as the wave function of Wilsonian ambiguity was collapsed.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Forget it, Jake -- it's Chinatown.

You know who," Jack said. "I mean Flaire, of course.

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Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above. ("In The Court Of The Dragon")

Ambiguity, selective retention, and misleading paraphrasal combine to give believers great influence on the meaning of their religion. But, for raw semantic power, none of these tools rivals the deft deployment of metaphor and allegory. In a single stroke, this can obliterate a text's literal meaning and replace it with something radically different.

La percepción es un proceso activo que constantemente está construyendo modelos del mundo. Esa es una de las razones por las que cada persona ve cosas diferentes en los manchones abstractos de tinta utilizados en las pruebas de Rorschach: nuestra mente trata de convertir incluso los patrones más ambiguos en algo que tenga sentido. Nos gusta tener una historia sobre lo que son y lo que significan las cosas.

Ahora mismo, yo me pregunto, mirándote: ¿Con qué ojos mira una mujer a un hombre? Eso es lo que nunca sabremos. ¿No te parece? Vos para mí eras un desgraciado, al que de un revés se lo saca uno de adelante. Pero para ella, ¿quién eras vos? Ese es el punto oscuro. ¿Lo supiste alguna vez? Decíme francamente: ¿supiste vos en tu corazón qué hombre eras para tu mujer? ¿Qué es lo que ella vio en vos para sufrir tanto a tu lado, y soportarte como lo hizo?

life is a succession of misunderstandings, leading us on to the final truth, the only truth.

Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one's way in the dark.

He] turned his back on the window, not knowing why he had gone to it, not knowing what he hoped to see, and just at that moment, when there was no one at the window any more and only a little lamp of colored glass at the back of the room flickering, it appeared.

Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions.

The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?