The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I really like people to be able to interpret stuff in their own way, I like the ambiguity of the medium. We're… — Dan Smith 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
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. — Theodor Adorno 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
Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science. — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable. — John Bolton 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
We are living in times of great uncertainty. Likely no more so than in previous times but the sense of ambiguity may… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys,… — Barry Eisler 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
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
Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable.… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
