Quotes About Ambiguity

Perplexity is the beginning of a new way.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

In my mind, I'm still this kid from St. Louis, Missouri, that nobody really knows.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

I am not sure what my stand on lasting really is.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

I am sometimes more doubt than man.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

I don't know man, I didn't do it.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.