Quotes About Ambiguity

Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

I classify myself as a comedian, but I'm one of those comedians who also acts so that I can split the difference and feel insecure about both.

I think my first girlfriend and I hardly spoke to each other in the year we were going out. In fact we never even spoke to each other to formally break it off. For all I know she still thinks we're together. Maybe in a parallel universe we're very happy.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

So through no rational process whatsoever I was the leader, And I had no idea what I was going to say.

His father was a sergeant major, his mother was a Korean woman whose people had been mine slaves in Nippon, and Hiro didn't know whether he was black or Asian or just plain Army, whether he was rich or poor, educated or ignorant, talented or lucky. He didn't even have a part of the country to call home until he moved to California, which is about as specific as saying that you live in the Northern Hemisphere. In the end, it was probably his general disorientation that did them in.

It didn't matter whether "football" for you was soccer or the American sport played by men in helmets.

If this all seems ambiguous, that's because it is; and if that troubles you, you'd hate it here; but if it gives you a feeling of relief, then you are in the right place and might consider staying.

I was wondering when I was going to end up like this.

the ambiguous conversation with the unseen serving-wench, the bags of hot-grease-scented food hurtling in through the window, condiments in packets, attempting to eat while lurching down a highway, volumes of messy litter that seemed to fill all the empty space in the mobe, a smell that outstayed its welcome.

Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion? Juanita shrugs.—What's the difference?

It was hard to tell whether he was looking at a water heater, an abandoned refrigerator, or a human being. When it moved a little, he decided the latter