Quotes About Ambiguity

Stylistically speaking, 'Paradise' is a Jekyll & Hyde song.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

Now you don't know if somebody likes you or Milli Vanilli, the fame, the money. This makes it difficult. This makes you a little paranoid and afraid about people.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

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.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

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Remember, things are never clear until it's too late.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.

Translation is like love; I do not know what it is but I think I know what it is not.

M got into difficulties. Somebody – and since the client was dead it wasn't clear who – didn't like his two paintings.

it would seem almost impossible to argue that the biblical narrative is a calm, clear, and uncontentious text. Rather, the Scriptures reach our ears in an often ominous and scandalous tone. From the opening pages of this ancient text, we are confronted with a shocking series of ambiguous stories and complex conflicts that defy easy categorization and interpretation.

Something I worry about a lot when I write, that I'm less worried about with a computer, is about the ways in which English is ambiguous. I'm constantly worrying about ways in which the reader might misinterpret what I've written. So I've actually spent a lot of time consciously crafting the mechanics of my prose style to use constructions that are less likely to be misinterpreted.

In this distinctive world, elusive quantities flash at the edge of conventional logic.

A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or any other source of light, it thinks this will be easy. But everywhere it turns it sees brightness. Every wall, every piece of furniture it points at is brightly lit. Eventually it concludes there is no darkness, that light is everywhere.

Here in the dusk of the twenty-first century it was so easy to confuse murder with the amputation of a fingertip.

Like to hear a vampire folk tale?" Sarasti asked. "Vampires have folk tales?" He took it for a yes. "A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or any other source of light, it thinks this will be easy. But everywhere it turns it sees brightness. Every wall, every piece of furniture it points at is brightly lit. Eventually it concludes there is no darkness, that light is everywhere.

It's hard to say how long he'll be out but he's 100 per cent doubtful for the weekend, that's for sure.