Quotes About Ambiguity

We are split people.

Watching this manic desire to make or grow or do 'something', that now seems to be consuming everybody, I do feel comforted to discover I'm not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.

She was never home. Irie was stuck between a rock and a hard place, like Ireland, like Israel, like India.

Strange inversions proliferate.

Watching this manic desire to make or grow or do "something," that now seems to be consuming everybody, I do feel comforted to discover I'm not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.

Most of us have complicated backstories, messy histories, multiple narratives. It was a high-wire strategy, for Obama, this invocation of our collective human messiness. His enemies latched on to its imprecision, emphasizing the exotic, un-American nature of Dream City, this ill-defined place where you could be from Hawaii and Kenya, Kansas and Indonesia all at the same time, where you could jive talk like a street hustler and orate like a senator.

When I was a kid, I thought I'd rather be a brain in a jar than a "natural woman." I have turned out to be some odd combination of both, from moment to moment, and with no control over when and where or why those moments occur.

He peered down the hallway at the shadowy form of Joyce through the glass and scratched his testicles, sadly.

De fapt, în mintea mea, era în acelaÈ™i timp pe de-a-ntregul adev?rat È™i evident o minciun?, È™i poate numai copiii sunt în stare s? accepte asemenea adev?ruri cu dou? feÈ›e.

Millat was half sure that he was possibly maybe going to do something or not that would be correct and very silly and fine and un-good.

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

She left the porch pelting her back with unasked questions. They hoped the answers were cruel and strange.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

With some electronica acts, you see them live, but you're not really sure what they're doing.

I do wish my career had kept going. I think sometimes people think that we know everything in advance. We don't.

Everybody agreed I had all this talent, but I didn't know what to make of it.

I've always been drawn to ambiguity.

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.

I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles.

I can have an androgynous quality.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.