Quotes About Uncertainty

She closed her eyes and tried desperately to swim through the mist that enveloped her memories. She was near here and then she wasn't. She was whole and then she was wounded. Forever scarred. And in between? Unknowable, it seemed. Absolutely unknowable.

sword of Damocles

Half of the fear of life is not knowing something that you wished you knew, and the other half is knowing it.

wanted all my questions answered and everything wrapped and tied with a bow. But life is not neat bows and nice packages. Life is messy and you don't get all your questions answered.

Trouble is our only defense against boredom.

The more dangerous life is, the better. Scary equals important, right?

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

I have a bunch of movies that are, like, two minutes from being green-lit, or that they've maybe even told me are green-lit. But I never believe it until I see the money.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.

I once missed an appointment because I left my house, I locked the door. And then I thought, like anybody else, you know, 'I don't think I locked the door.' I just kept going back to the door. And I couldn't stop myself from checking and checking.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

I'm constantly anxious about making mistakes.

There's only so much mistrust we can take before things get much worse.

Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

I think that's kind of the perfect mix, where you do something that you're not sure about, you feel like you're taking a risk, and then you turn around and look at the artists that you're collaborating with and you can read the expression on their face if they like it or they hate it.

When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.

I'm not ready to decide if modeling is what I want to do with my life.

Modelling is something I couldn't see as my forte or something that I would do for the rest of my life.