Quotes About Ambiguity

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.

Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew for sure if the tone was subtly comprehensive, or just a form of cowardice.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me." "That's typical of life, isn't it?

When the world has been fully codified and collated, when ambivalences and ambiguities have been so sponged away that we know exactly and objectively where everything is and what it is called, a sense of loss arises.

It was often difficult to tell if things were a hundred years old, or a hundred thousand.

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been. Most of us are better off for the not knowing.

First rule of complex systems," I said. "You can't tell friends from enemies.

In 'Raabta' I've two personalities to project, and yes, there are distinct shades of grey.

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

We all go through the phase where the work is slow and aren't sure if what we are doing will have returns in the future or if it'll reach people at all. You can't fight that.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

I've seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn't matter how we met. We met. I don't want to say that we're a couple. I can definitely say that he's somebody in my life, and I'm definitely interested but I'm not serious with anybody.

I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.