Quotes About Ambiguity

We looked not at each other, and neither at the ground, but at a place in space a few feet from our faces, where I suppose one looks for a clear answer to appear out of undefined shock.

Chinatown is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a wonton, and fried.

If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.

Sometimes there are no answers.

Eres, o te llamas Eragon? -Las dos.

As she had learned, sometimes you had to make a choice, any choice, even when it wasn't clear which path was the right one.

I'm Paige, I whispered. He was serious, for once. Are you the first page, or the last? I didn't answer, not right then.

Yet I have to wonder if I have lost the song because I have become the song. If I have lost my Lord because I do indeed desire to be what I will become. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.

It was the time of night when the odd feeling of not being quite in focus comes and goes, and all things are mysterious.

Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all! It only looked good from the bottom.

She sighed. 'But it's not that simple, you know, really it isn't. It's not really him, you know. I mean not really the person. It's everything, it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? You're just one person and it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? I don't know, Tambu, really I don't know. So what do you do? I don't know.

For two years I have refused to answer idle questions on the order of Is your novel an open work or not? How should I know? That is your business, not mine. Or With which of your characters do you identify? For God's sake, with whom does an author identify? With the adverbs, obviously.

What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?

Über die deutsche Sprache: "Sie halten sich für tief, weil ihre Sprache unklar ist, ihr fehlt die clarté der französischen Sprache, sie sagt nie exakt das, was sie sollte, so dass kein Deutscher jemals weiß, was er sagen wollte – und dann verwechselt er diese Undeutlichkeit mit Tiefe. Es ist mit Deutschen wie mit Frauen, man gelangt bei ihnen nie auf den Grund

The Frenchman doesn't really know what he wants, but knows perfectly well that he doesn't want what he has. And the only way he knows of saying it is by singing songs.

I followed the curve that rose from the capitals of the semicircle of columns and ran along the ribs of the vault toward the key, mirroring the mystery of the ogive, that supreme static hypocrisy which rests on an absence, making the columns believe that they are thrusting the great ribs upward and the ribs believe that they are holding the columns down, the vault being both all and noting, at once cause and effect.

Yo sospecho, sospecho siempre.

There's the rub. The manifesto doesn't say; it leaves you with your mouth watering. But it was important; so important, it had to remain secret.

Desgraciadamente, «posmoderno» es un término que sirve para cualquier cosa. Tengo la impresión de que hoy se aplica a todo lo que le gusta a quien lo utiliza. Por

Siz gülmeye gülüyorsunuz, ama gene de gülüyorsunuz.

L'italiano è infido, bugiardo, vile, traditore, si trova più a suo agio con il pugnale che con la spade, meglio con il veleno che col farmaco, viscido nella trattativa, coerente solo nel cambiar bandiera a ogni vento.

Opera aperta (The open work), published in 1962, the first of Eco's books on a modern topic and the work with which he made his name in Italy.

Fire is therefore too many things and – as well as being a psychological phenomenon – it becomes a symbol, and like all symbols it is ambiguous, polysemic and evokes different meanings according to the situation.

Symbol sometimes of the Devil, sometimes of the Risen Christ, no animal is more untrustworthy than the cock.