Quotes About Ambiguity

You dont even know where I start.

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?

Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.

The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.

He hadn't been cursed or blessed in any obvious way, and he didn't know what message he was intended to receive.

It's like that famous optical illusion, the drawing of either an elegant young woman, face turned away from the viewer, or a wart-nosed crone, chin tucked down on her chest. There's no "correct" interpretation; both are equally valid. But you can't see both at the same time.

The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available. When

Practically speaking, today is yesterday and there is no certainty tomorrow will ever arrive.

I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

We pretend that, in a way, people who know Sparks don't know Sparks.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

I'm 27, and I have no idea what I am doing half the time. I am just trying the best I can, and I think that speaks to a lot of other women out there.

Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on the masculine-feminine spectrum.