Quotes About Ambiguity

You can't really explain why things happen.

When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there's gray areas, then bad things happen.

I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

extraordinarily beautiful, and slightly out of focus.

I am worried about this, but there's nothing to do but try.

I'm just a floating question-mark, waiting for an answer to hook onto me.

Just as serious modern literature does not have plain old bad guys, sophisticated movies may also avoid such stock figures.

é preciso decidir, sabendo que qualquer caminho será doloroso e sem segurança sobre o final. Para ser honesto, essa é a condição geral da vida: nunca se sabe. "Se é bom ou se é mau, só o futuro o dirá".

Os Natais de hoje ficaram diferentes. Há um ar triste de nostalgia, saudade indefinida, não se sabe de quê.

The uncertainty of tomorrow can only be understood by those who don't know for sure if they will live another day.

They didn't know which box to put me in so I think it was easier to just see past me

We got plenty of laughs, but not always for the right reasons.

It seems to me that part of the true function of a mystery is precisely that it remains unsolved. The world would be far too neat a place if the things that puzzled us were always, eventually, explained. We need unanswered questions at the edges of our lives. In fact, I'd go further. It's important not to think we can understand everything. Not to understand. The humility that can come from that. The wonder.

There is no moral to the story, any more than there is a moral to life. We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.

La elección es creativa y, por lo tanto, impredecible. Al toparse con una elección predecible, ya no se trata propiamente de una elección.

the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.

It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years' time would be christened New Jersey, was in fact the backdoor of China, that India, with its steamy profusion of gods and curries, lay just beyond those bluffs.

Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.

What are these things that draw toward us, these visitors that hide among us