The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually . — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense;… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school,… — Jason Silva 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
What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that maybe happy families don't need stories the way unhappy families need stories. Maybe they're too busy living that they… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had… — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sin 2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin 2 φ… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language.… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, 'America Is Better Than Abortion.' I think… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire:… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
