Quotes About Ambiguity

I don't have a clue what any of that means,' I said. 'Most days I don't either.' He was being charming, of course.

See, now you're saying a nice thing and yet somehow it sounds like a bad thing.' 'Not bad,' he said, 'Just...different.

the hell? I thought. My life is no more mixed

The more you learn about the law, the more you realize there is no such thing as 'the law'.

Aš neabejoju nei pradžia, nei pabaiga. Tiktai nežinau, kur esu.

The journey through this one case will ultimately bring viewers from wondering, in cop-show expectation, whether the bad guys will get caught, to wondering instead who the bad guys are and whether catching them means anything at all,

Eleven stories above Brooklyn Heights in a 659,000-square-foot building that also housed Morgan Stanley and the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Hillary's top aides were as miserable as midlevel bureaucrats in an agency with no clear plans for how to attain its mission. They

words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say [...]

obfuscating everything in sight

Now, it was the Black Muslim radical against the bully, and it was not at all clear to fight fans which one was less evil. Ambiguity was not the thing sports fans craved.

The difference between a mind asking "Must I believe it?" versus "Can I believe it?" is so profound that it even influences visual perception. Subjects who thought that they'd get something good if a computer flashed up a letter rather than a number were more likely to see the ambiguous figure as the letter B, rather than as the number 13.

If people can literally see what they want to see—given a bit of ambiguity—is it any wonder that scientific studies often fail to persuade the general public?

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

Grumbling, grimacing, and mumbled curses peak during the muddled middle of murder investigations, when promising leads break their promises.

as 'an explanation of ignotum ab ignoto'"—a theory that relies on the unknown to explain the unknown.

The rich leapt over suspicious puddles in their beautiful clothes. Up and down they strolled, no discernible destination in mind, and that, he [Andrew Haswell Green] decided, must be a thing that money can buy: the freedom from needing direction.

I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.

Volevo chiudere gli occhi, o coprirli con una mano, e al tempo stesso volevo guardare, guardare a sazietà e tentare di comprendere con lo sguardo quella cosa incomprensibile, lì, davanti a me, quel vuoto per il pensiero umano.

Even though Tom wasn't moving, he seemed to be a little farther away. For the first time Benny realized that there were other people in the hallways. They were indistinct, more of a sense of movement in the gray light rather than specific shapes. He thought he recognized one of them, though. "Chong?" The figure stopped moving, but he stood with his back to Benny. "Tom-is that Chong?" "Is that Chong?" Benny asked again. "Is...is he going with you?

I'm not a Jew. I'm Jew-ish. I don't go the whole hog.

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

Fiction has no right answers, and reading fiction is not about getting things right.

He was a bad courtier and painted an ambiguous picture entitled La Menzogna or Falsehood, to show what he felt about the need for dissimulation to achieve success; a man holds up a mask to indicate to his companion that he must adopt it if he wants to make progress at court... ... The clear message was that Rosa was not prepared to demean himself in that way.

What do you think? Is the middle way a trifle wider?" "I was going to suggest right." "Let's go left, then. We've both got a terrible record at this sort of thing. We're almost certainly both wrong.