Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an… — E. L. Doctorow 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
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing… — Stephen Rea 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
To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it… — Kelly G. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to… — John Green Copy Share Image
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's really easy to make a movie that five people understand. It's really hard to make something that a lot of people… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said,… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals?… — Matt Robinson Copy Share Image
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out,… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
