Quotes About Ambiguity

If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea…does that mean that 1 enjoys it?

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY. Not true. Today is another day. We have no idea what tomorrow is going to be. It might turn out to be another day, but we can't be sure. If it happens, I'll be the first to say so. But, you know what? By that time, it'll be today again

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after.

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.

There are episodes in most men's lives in which their highest qualities can only cast a deterring shadow over the objects that fill their inward version.

For a long while she had been oppressed by the indefiniteness which hung in her mind, like a thick summer haze, over all her desire to make her life greatly effective.

I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad,—I should be sorry for him to be a raskill,—but a sort o' engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one o' them smartish businesses as are all profits and no outlay, only for a big watch-chain and a high stool.

To Mr. Casaubon now, it was as if he suddenly found himself on the dark river-brink and heard the plash of the oncoming oar, not discerning the forms, but expecting the summons.

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.