Quotes About Ambiguity

It may be taken as axiomatic that any statement of fact about the Middle Ages may (and probably will) be met by a statement of the opposite or a different version.

It might sound a little glib, but maybe I don't know what a finished poem is. I lean toward the school that a poem is never finished, it's just abandoned.

Imagination is a double-edged sword. You get cut both ways—bleed happily, bleed nostalgically.

I do believe in the mysteries of things, about myself and the things I see. I enjoy being puzzled and arriving at my own incorrect conclusions.

In the picture, Ava Gardner's tousled black hair obscured her right eye, and her full, closed lips were pulled slightly to the right, resulting in something less than a smile. They looked as if they'd been smeared shut with red paint, though the photo was in black and white. It wasn't so much a fuck-me face as a I've-been-there-and-back look, the kind of expression you see only on the most expensive whores.

Like that. It's all right. It's not all right. It's right.

I don't want to think about or start thinking about figuring out my life, for whatever it's worth.

There is something very affirming about the idea that the narrative is the big thing, and it is not clear if it is good or bad, or if it is moving in a good or bad direction. It's just moving. You have to draw meaning from the whole.

But that night, the future was still blank. The film had not been shot, the bromide was still in its brown glass bottle. Nothing had been fixed.

Human beings rarely do things for a binary reason.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.

When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received.

I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.

The Internet is a giant 'lab experiment' for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity and fluidity will survive and win.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

It's difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognise you from your work or just because you're 6 ft. 3 in. and have the eyebrows of Satan. It's difficult to distinguish between the two.

People occasionally recognise me. But they don't know who I am. I see a lot of bemused looks... They're trying to figure it out.

People recognize me, but they don't know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company.

The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

People keep referring to 'Sing Street' as a musical, but I really never felt it was that. I can't really define it as a musical.