Quotes About Ambiguity

One of the things I like so much about 'Goodnight Moon' is the way it leaves room for ambiguity.

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

I definitely want to stay in L.A. but kind of have an open mind.

I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.

Define us as a sex. LORD ILLINGWORTH Sphinxes without secrets.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.  However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.

truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 

By the way, is there any difference between 'grey' and 'gray'? I believe there is, but I don't know what it is. In one place in the poem Smithers suggests 'gray'. In others he leaves 'grey'. Perhaps he is seeing red. I believe they are sympathetic colours in spectroscope investigations.

very essence of romance is uncertainty. 

He was afraid of certainty.

One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I've made a career out of it now.

It's and odd thing, but however much an oficionado one may be of mysteries in book form, when they pop up in real life they seldom fail to give one the pip.

darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

Nepamiršk, tamsa ne visada tas pat, kas blogis, o šviesa ne visada neša vien g?r?

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?