Quotes About Ambiguity

I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

Vagueness and good law are simply incompatible.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

The show is not really about finding love in Silicon Valley, and it never really claimed be so.

Of course, lawyers are always making money either way—up, down, and especially around.

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.

Her smiles were sudden and transformative, but I never understood what caused them.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

I am by turns a petulant adolescent and a mature man, a melancholy loner and a wit telling actors their trade. I cannot decide whether I'm a philosopher or a moping teenager, a poet or a murderer, a procrastinator or a man of action. I might be truly mad or sane pretending to be mad or even mad pretending to be sane.

There is much unexplained in the world. It behoves one to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralised debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

Can I ask why? Why what? Why you're something you're not? We're all something we're not, he said. Every one of us is stuck between the person we want to be and the person we can be and there doesn't have to be a why. All things have to do is feel right.

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

Are you married? Yes, I mumbled, that is to say - no. Come, come, said Havisham angrily. It is a simple enough question. I was married, I answered. Died? No, I mumbled, that is to say - yes. I'll try harder questions in future, announced Havisham, for you are obviously not adept at the easy ones.

Really?" I asked, which is probably the only answer to anything in Conspiracy.