Ambiguous Quotes

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Keith Richards

Life, Writing, Ambiguity

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
Jerry Garcia

Stuff, Scary, Hidden

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
Annie Lennox

Good, Powerful, Through

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.
Felix Mendelssohn

Music, Words, Soul

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
Bernardo Bertolucci

Life, Left, Ending

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Felix Mendelssohn

Music, Words, Everyone

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
Alexei Sayle

Good, Trying, Psychology

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.
Emily Blunt

Hard, Enjoy, Makes

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
May Sarton

Life, Best, May

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.
Daniel H. Wilson

Time, History, Simple

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
M. Night Shyamalan

Art, Anime, Features

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
Joel Coen

Made, Question, Movie

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.
Fred Thompson

War, Mistakes, Past

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
Richard Eyre

Feelings, Rather, Facts

Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.
Lindsey Buckingham

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
Clive Barker

Dreams, Good, Health

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
James Ellroy

Readers, Provoke, Responses

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.
Isabelle Huppert

Good, Bad, Before

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.
Francis Crick

May, Meaning, Expect

My style is ambiguous and lucid.
Cee Lo Green

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.
Hugh Dancy

Strange, Place, Couple

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
Stephen Rea

Great, Art, Down

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
Richard Lugar

Time, Experience, Democracy

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
Roman Jakobson

Giving, Different, Whole

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.
Kenzaburo Oe

Country, Position, Japan

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.
Billy Crudup

End, Taking, Morally

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.
Susan Collins

Past, Position, Dealing

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.
David Cook

Good, Help, May

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Life, Sense, Once

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.
Alexander Siddig

Life, Wish, Everybody

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