Quotes About Ambiguity

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.

When you see an early edited version, you're not sure what it is. The movie is getting on its wobbly legs.

I love walking the line. I look very wobbly. Like I'm gonna fall over the line. But I never do.

A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies the doctrine and teachings of a perfect teacher, the Master. She is a noble example to all who know her.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit murky.

In terms of the themes, I love gray areas. The show is really about what makes someone truly good or what makes someone truly bad, and are we either of those things? 'Loki' is in that gray area.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

There is no complete theory of anything.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

I live on having a challenge when the line is really thin. I like it the most when you have no clue what is going to happen.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

There's a thin line between mockery and endorsement.

As long as you can throw people a curveball, that's what you're looking for. Because the minute they can define you, the minute they think they know exactly who you are, is when it starts to wear thin.

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.