Quotes About Ambiguity

You're never satisfied until you've got two buts and an if attached to everything.

Exactly," said Slank.

It all meant something. Until it didn't.

Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are.

An ambient angst pervades our society—there's a sense that somehow there's probably something we should be doing that we're not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution and from which there is no rest.

An ambient angst pervades our society—there's a sense that somehow there's probably something we should be doing that we're not, which creates a tension for which there is no resolution and from which there is no rest. On

Es mejor estar equivocado que ser impreciso. —FREEMAN DYSON

He laughed, but he didn't smile.

there?" "Doubtful. While

the parking lot out there, the right and left are reversed.

You ask me that question two, three years ago I'd say yeah, damn straight you will. Yes sir." He looked out at the crush of people. "You ask me today, I say I don't know. I don't care what court you're in. Supreme Court, traffic court. Things are changing, man. Not just the courts either. Everything. Everybody. Whole goddamn world's changing and I just don't know anymore." They

Every time I think I've got you figured out you throw me a curve. - Veronica Knox

When her long fingers clamped around Michelle's in a handshake, Michelle wondered if the woman used to call herself Carl.

So why do you think he's involved?" This came from Agent Lafferty. Bogart turned to her, seemingly surprised that she had uttered actual words. Decker stared dead at her. "Because he's inexplicable. And I don't like people who are inexplicable.

any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations.

Nude descending a staircase headless, not knowing where she is going but brave because all dreams lack conclusions and she is not enlisted to an ending.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

Your essential emotional tone—at ease in your deepest purpose or fearful in the ambiguity of your intent—becomes part of your children's home.

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an end can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.

Es muy raro sentir que añoras algo que ni siquiera estás seguro de conocer.

there was always something disappointing about clouds when you were inside them; they ceased to be clouds at all. It just got really foggy.

He was unsure what the thing inside him was and was unprepared to commit himself to the course of action that would be required to explore the question.