Quotes About Ambiguity

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.

People ask what the advantages are of wearing a mask, and the first thing, of course, is the mystery - people don't know exactly what Kane is thinking.

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

The one thing I've learned in sports entertainment is that nothing is for certain, and you never say never.

The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

The show is not so clean cut in terms of good and bad. That is the theme that runs through the show. Loki is taking down the TVA, but is it the right decision?

As banged up as she is, that's what most people would do. Even if she pulls through, there's no guarantee she'll be much of a dog." He stroked the dog's head and thought, No guarantee any of us will be much of anything, but we still try.

You know, you try to hide the fact that you're nice," she said. "I think it's natural for you to be kind." "Nowww," he warned. "You'll ruin my reputation." "You haven't even established one yet," she said. "No one knows quite what to make of you.

He had the swarthy good looks and fierce eyes of a pirate or maybe a serial killer.

I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one.

but more than anything, the homecoming nomination made me feel as though I was being pushed back into a world I was happy to leave behind

Actually, I was trying to figure out if we were on a date, albeit one that had started at eight thirty in the morning.

that would drag on inconclusively for most of the next three centuries.

Prophesy as much as you like, but always hedge. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1861

The Text is not a definitive object.

Q. Life is not two sheets of paper, one black, one white. Life is a ream of paper, each page a different shade of gray." That was about as poetic as Boone had ever been. And I was still confused.

This is a time, as Herman Hesse puts it, "when a whole generation is caught . . . between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand itself and has no standards, no security, no simple acquiescence.

The novel is a haunting and subtly terrifying picture of the modern man who is truly a "stranger" to himself.