Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“This, however, only shows that there is an ambiguity in the word is; a word which not only performs the function of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
People who are comfortable with very clear boundaries and group definitions don't like the instability and ambiguity of people who say they… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
There's no gray area in law enforcement. Evil exists in the world and it must be dealt with. And those on the… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or… — Hugh S. Johnson Copy Share Image
A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“…I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, understand. What’s mysterious,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
“Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's… — Hugh S. Johnson Copy Share Image
We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity.… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
leaders seem to have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Recognizing that the brain does not work in a completely linear fashion, leaders… — Marlene Caroselli Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its… — Kirk Varnedoe Copy Share Image
To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the… — Philip M. Condit Copy Share Image
Many writers and artists portrayed the poor sympathetically, and even fought on their behalf, but they themselves were not of that class.… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
“A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determined to remove any ambiguities… — Hamid-Reza Assefi Copy Share Image
“I call that ambiguity,” I said. “Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side to the light, the light side to… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I love doing movies, but right now, television is the way Hollywood was in the late '60s and early '70s. The dream… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Different reactions while film test screening doesn't mean even the audience thinks ambiguity is a bad thing. But if you're asking them… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
