Quotes About Ambiguity

That's right … we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty

According to her watch it was shortly after three o'clock, and according to everything else it was night-time.

Perhaps they are singing songs to you,' he said, 'and I just think they're asking me questions.' He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like.

That's right," shouted Vroomfondel, "we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Perhaps I would like a glass of whisky. Yes, that seems more likely.

People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

Do you think they came today?' he said. 'I do. There's mud on the floor, cigarettes and whisky on the table, fish on a plate for you and a memory of them in my mind. Hardly conclusive evidence I know, but then all evidence is circumstantial.

Arthur sat at the bar and rested. He was used to not knowing what was going on. He felt comfortable with it.

always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Don't pick it up, pick it up, pick i— "Don't pick it up, pick it up, pick i— "Don't pick it up, pick it up, pick i—

I have been listening," said Arthur, "but I'm not sure it's helped.

In the years since then, Richard had run into Dirk from time to time and had usually been greeted with that kind of guarded half smile that wants to know if you think it owes you money before it blossoms into one that hopes you will lend it some.

Sometimes if you receive an answer, the question might be taken away.

Ä°lk sav?n sahipleri meselenin bu olmad???n? söylüyorlard?. Meselenin ne olduÄŸuna tam olarak emin deÄŸillerdi, ama bu olmad???n? biliyorlard?.

It was a little like a pikka bird, only rather smaller. That is to say, in fact it was larger, or to be more exact, precisely the same size or, at least, not less than twice the size. It was also both a lot bluer and a lot pinker than pikka birds, while at the same time being perfectly black.

Ripristineremo la normalità appena saremo sicuri di cosa sia in ogni caso il normale.

There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence.

Raffia-wrapped bottles lurked hideously in the shadows.

The chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

sometimes not knowing can be a lot worse than knowing—even if knowing proves to be very painful.

when you really parsed what the man had said, he in fact had said nothing.

You see, between me and life there is a mist of words always.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.