Quotes About Ambiguity

I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

I mean, at least with an argument, you know what's happening. Or have some idea. Silence is...it could be anything.

The thing about Whitney, I said, is that she was always really private. So you never knew if anything was wrong with her.

I'm really interested in the idea of anomynity and familiarity. And sunglasses, you know, are so indicatitve of that. I mean, they're worn by some people to hide themselves. But they're also a fashion statement, meant to be noticed. So there's a dichotomy there.

call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.

Norman was never one for exactness, exactly.

It seemed like things either stayed just the same or changed irrevocably. And like most times I found myself with hard choices, I just wished there was something clear and easy, right in between.

I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall part and see options instead of endings.

In the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred.

The specifics of what, exactly, these terms meant were never explained; as with any fantasy, vagueness was part of the appeal.

The choice of no choice.

Either you're standing under your haloes, eyes up to heaven, or you're munching apples in their faces and flashing your bush. I'm not even sure they know which one they prefer. The best you can do is choose when you change your costume

No, I don't think poems will save us. And yet, and yet

I guess people can be wrong and right at the same time.

Chevalier d'Éon de Beaumont, had previously served France as both a male soldier in the Seven Years' War and a female secret agent who infiltrated the Russian monarchy, successfully befriending and convincing a Russian czarina not to become an ally of France's enemy Great Britain. No one was entirely sure of his/her gender, and he/she kept them guessing.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

Everyone was like the faces on a playing card, upside down either way.

it greatly bothered him that I had such a flunky job, washing cages and sweeping up dogs' hair; and also that I was no longer a college man but trying to keep up on Helmholtz who was a dead number to him; in other words, that I should be of the unformed darkened-out mass. It was often that way with me, that people would feel the world owed me distinctness.

There's nothing worse than being confused, too, in addition to being unlucky.

Mislio je: Draže mi je prihvatiti kao motiv ne nešto što potpuno razumijem, nego ono što napola razumijem. Skrajnja jasno?a objašnjenja za mene je neiskrena.

Why, it was a crying matter, no fooling, to anyone who might know which side was up, that here was I trying to refuse to lead a disappointed life.