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Quotes About Ambiguous

I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.
~ Margaret Mitchell
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.
~ Johann Gustav Droysen
His golden eyebrows were very clear against his tannd skin, and he frowned slightly while smiling at the same time. It made him look very clever and loving, though I wasn't sure why.
~ Anne Rice
He threw up the conkers into the air in his great happiness. In the tree above him they disturbed a roosting crow, which erupted from the branches with an explosive bang of its wings, then rose up above him towards the sky, its harsh, ambiguous call coming back in long, grating waves towards the earth, to be heard by those still living.
~ Sebastian Faulks
For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.
~ Danielle Steel
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
~ John George Diefenbaker
he was a little dark, a little private, Hunt was okay
~ John Hart
My father's ambiguous smile swam before my eyes.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It was a smooth voice, androgynous, and cultured, unexpected.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Beginnings, it's said, are apt to be shadowy.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Es usted un mal bicho. —Hay días que sí. Algo... Por
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
A politician is like quicksilver if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it.
~ Austin O'Malley
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
~ Anton Rubinstein
In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.
~ Jason Schwartzman
Katin tried to look reservedly doubtful. The expression was too complicated and came out blank.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she'd bolt.
~ Sara Sheridan
Complex problems are often open-ended and poorly defined
~ Marjan van den Belt
The note was undated, and without either signature or address.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
We're just... friends. No, friends doesn't feel right. Not colleagues either. Not really acquaintances... OK. Let's face it. It's weird.
~ Sophie Kinsella
To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.
~ John Osborne
Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
~ Eloise McGraw
Love and hate are complicated emotions," Aiden said. "Sometimes they're the same.
~ Barbara Freethy
double et louche (a provocative phrase which could mean "double and squinting" or "equivocal" or "shady" in the sense of disreputable).
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
There was something vaguely queer about his appearance.
~ George Orwell