Quotes About Ambiguity

Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen // Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen

The mechanism of the heavens was clearer, the mechanism of their courts was still murky. [Scene fourteen. English version by Charles Laughton.]

Chi sa perché il dubbio appare agli uomini come una felicità.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

The human mind holds tightly to those things it can't reconcile.

Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.

Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?

We are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.

When I wrap a job, I disconnect with it, and I'm done, even if they said we'd shoot more next year, at this time, which is not the case at all because nobody knows what's happening.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Gravity Falls' is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.

Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.

There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never feel that way.

That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't think it's a magic trick but is something amazing they haven't seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality.

As far as me participating in 'WrestleMania 32', the Magic 8-Ball says, 'Ask again later.'

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.