Quotes About Ambiguity

The PM smiles, and for a moment I see a flickering vision where His face should be: an onion-skin Matryoshka doll of circular shark-toothed maws, lizard-man faces, and insectile hunger. "A word in my study if you don't mind. Right this way.

Nicholas was already tall for his age, dark unruly hair and dark eyes, although in the photograph you couldn't tell if they were brown or dark blue.

Is the journey still worthwhile if the mountain turns out to be enshrouded in fog at the top?

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.

Everything with me had always been black and white. Life or death. I wanted more gray. I wanted to learn how to forgive.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within you. The worst part is you can't even tell who is who.

My only explanation for our cheeky ambition is this: Being surrounded by pet-supply e-tailors worth more than IBM has a way of getting your sense of what's possible all out of whack. The old millennium was dying; a better one was on its way. We were in our mid-twenties, and we had no idea what we were doing. But we knew we loved books. And so we set out to write them.

Ah, the Devil Herself. We really do not know whether the Devil wears breeches or a skirt, now do we?

wanted all my questions answered and everything wrapped and tied with a bow. But life is not neat bows and nice packages. Life is messy and you don't get all your questions answered.

Incredibly, I've been mistaken for Kylie Minogue many times. People look at me, and you can see them thinking, 'She's somebody - but I don't know who.'

It doesn't really bother me if people misunderstand me. It's cool, but you can't do anything about it.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

Kids love the Hulk, but they're not really sure: 'Is he a monster or is he a hero?'

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

If you ask me what is going to happen in a month or a year, I can't tell you. We're focused on the present.

I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.